gnome-cups-manager / gnome-cups-add problems

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:14 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:26 -0600, Yousif Hassan  
> <yousif at alumni.jmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jeremy for trying to help:
>>
>>> It works for me with gnome-cups-(manager|add) by setup to connect via
>>> samba on other computer that has WindowsXP with printer. I can't get
>>> printer works on FreeBSD even via web-based CUPS interface, so only  
>>> way to
>>> get work is by via samba+cups. So... I never knew how
>>> gnome-cups-(manager|add) are doing on FreeBSD with printer.
>>
>> Funny you should mention that.  Samba is actually the source of my
>> problem, and I tracked it down in the CUPS log
>> in /var/log/cups/error_log:
>>
>> CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer client-error-not-possible: Bad device-uri
>> "smb://MYDOMAIN\yhassan:mypasswd@PKFILE1/ENG_HP4000"!
>>
>> The reason it fails is because of the invalid characters, it seems.
>> Still haven't figured out which but it's probably the '\'.  Problem is,
>> I know of no other way to pass domain information in the SMB uri.
>
> It took me a while to search in google and I have found it. See here:
>
> http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-printer-on-linux.html
>
> It said that this fix is in CVS, so I will dig in CVS/SVN. I should have  
> a patch available for you to test tonight or tomorrow. Very very  
> surpised to see that Ubuntu doesn't has this patch.

Put this file in gnome-cups-manager/files/.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/patch-add_workgroup

Let me know how it goes. This patch is from blog, not SVN. If it doesn't  
work, then we can try to use SVN version.

Cheers,
Mezz

> BTW: I have added five new patches ready that came from Ubuntu, but  
> these patches have nothing to do with your problem thought.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> *This* URI does work in terms of not crapping out in gnome-cups-manager:
>>
>> "smb://PKFILE1/ENG_HP4000"
>>
>> However, I have to pass the domain information to get authenticated at
>> work.  I wonder if this URI-handling error is an upstream issue - it
>> wouldn't make sense if it were just FreeBSD.
>>
>> So I mean to ask: how did you get your SMB printers installed into CUPS
>> with GNOME's CUPS manager?  With a simple URI as above, or do you know
>> to send domain info in a more friendly way? ;)
>>
>>> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
>>> > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication  
>>> protocols
>>> > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
>>>
>>> This error is harmless, you get that because your GTK app is running  
>>> as in
>>> root. You will see a lot of that if you search in google. I get that  
>>> too
>>> and I don't have problem with use gnome-cups-(manager|add).
>>
>> You're right, I finally figured this out.  Thanks for confirming!
>>
>>> Sorry, my respone isn't really helpful since I am pretty clueless  
>>> either.
>>> If I have printer that works with FreeBSD, then it would be a different
>>> story as I might be able to get it works.
>>
>> Actually, I'm curious about how you passed a Samba URI - see above.  And
>> thanks 'gain.
>>
>> --Yousif


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