Sharing A Printer Presents A "Stupid" Instructional Dialog Box To Appear
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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system-config-printer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When you share a printer, you have to go into your Printer settings window, select Server>Settings, and then check off several checkboxes. Boxes such as: "Publish shared printers connected to this system", "Allow remote administration", "Allow users to cancel a job (not just their own)", etc. This is all fine and dandy. What isn't fine and dandy is a dialog box that pops up after you click OK to change your server settings. It reads:
"Review Firewall
You may need to adjust the firewall to allow network printing to this computer.
To do this, select System>
Here's what I see being wrong with this instructional dialog box:
1. THERE IS NO SUCH THING as an item called "Firewall" located in System>
2. Lets say the user actually has to edit their firewall policy, but they don't know how or what ports to open. The box leaves the user hanging and does not offer the user any additional information as to what changes should be made to their firewall policy.
3. Not that this is necessarily required, but it would be nice: Can't this box/program be granted authority (via a admin password being entered) to check the iptables on it's own and offer the user the option to let it make the changes it needs to ensure network printing works? "CUPS Server settings has detected the ports that need to be open in order to ensure network printing works are currently closed. Would you like to allow CUPS (or whatever) to open these ports for you?" *you click yes* "Please enter your administrator password." *Done*