Bug 7033

Summary:	CUPS does not share any printer over the network
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marc Maurer <marc.maurer>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	flink, marc.maurer
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	cups-1.5.2-5.1mga2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Marc Maurer 2012-08-12 18:51:30 CEST

Description of problem: The use of the printer direct connected on the computer is OK. But the USB printer is connected on the ADSL Box (here a LiveBox from Orange) to share it with all user without direct connection with the printer, the printer was shared.This configuration worked with Mageia 1 and cups-1.4.6-3.mga1.x86_64.rpm but don't working with Mageia 2 and cups-1.5.2-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm
When i install the cups version 1.4.6-3.mag1 on the Mageia 2 in the place of
the 1.5.2-5.mga2 version of cups, i can print of the printer connected on the
LiveBox with USB. Here we have a regression of the cups software. No ? 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.5.2-5.1mga2

How reproducible: I try to install the printer connected on the ADSL Box on two differents computer and the result is the same : it don't work


Steps to Reproduce:
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Marc Maurer 2012-08-12 18:51:41 CEST

CC: (none) => marc.maurer

Comment 1 Marc Maurer 2012-08-13 17:52:18 CEST

Hello,
On my computer with Mageia 2 and cups-1.5.2-5.mga2, I install a VirtualBax with Win XP and the printer connected on the LiveBox. From WinXP on VirtualBox, I can print from Win XP in VirtualBox, but i can't print from Mageia 2 !!!

Comment 2 Franz Holzinger 2013-08-07 08:59:07 CEST

This works in Mageia 3 with latest code. I install the network printer from SAMSUNG, which is proven to work fine with Mandriva 2010 and all other LINUXes. 
I add the PPD file "Samsung-M262x_282x-pxlmono-Samsung.ppd" when I add the printer. At the first start CUPS crashes. However after a restart I can repeat the adding of the printer and it works.

libgnomecups-0.2.3-10.mga3
cups-pk-helper-0.2.4-3.mga3
cups-drivers-foo2zjs-0.0-0.20121012.2.mga3
lib64gnomecups-1.0_1-0.2.3-10.mga3
cups-common-1.5.4-9.mga3
python-cups-1.9.62-2.mga3
lib64cups2-1.5.4-9.mga3
gutenprint-cups-5.2.9-2.mga3
cups-1.5.4-9.mga3
libcups2-1.5.4-9.mga3

Version: 2 => 3
CC: (none) => flink

Comment 3 Franz Holzinger 2013-08-07 14:46:24 CEST

I want to describe the problem which is still present.

If you add a printer on a computer which is on a network, then the printer may be also on the network or connected via usb. You can install CUPS and add the printer driver successfully on the first computer. You are able to print now. However unfortunaltely the printer driver is installed as shared. You must manually remove the sharing of the printer.

If you install CUPS and the printer driver on another computer in the network, then this won't work if you did not unselect the sharing on the first computer. The printer would otherwise be automatically detected but unusable. CUPS seems to hang or crash. You can continue only if the printer is not shared. Then you are able to install the printer driver on any computer in the network. 

I think that this is a bug which should be fixed. You should not install the driver as shared by default. Then every user will be able to use it. And you should repair CUPS that a shared driver will not crash CUPS on other computers.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:06:36 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD