Bug 429272

Summary:	Printer: smb discovery not implemented
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsmeix
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	Future 11.3
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Monreal 2008-09-23 19:10:10 UTC

I just tried to setup a printer (which is shared via samba) in openSUSE 11.0: no luck. The printer module in Yast asks for the workgroup name and printer share name... I tried to guess them but it did not work. There's no way to browse workgoups etc.

Just a few days ago I setup the same printer from within Ubuntu: no problem at all.

Rumor is, 11.1 will ship with system-config-printer (which is what ubuntu uses, too) so this will probably no longer be an issue but I doubt the Yast module will go away, so this still seems to be a valid problem and the module should be more user-friendly in the future.

Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2009-11-17 09:27:16 UTC

FYI:
The rumor that 11.1 (and 11.2) ship system-config-printer is true
and yes - I also know - there is a nice [Browse] functionality
to set up a SMB print queue.