[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2257: cups6.ppd is missing incups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm

[Michael Sweet]

Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> ...
> After running "cupsaddsmb -v -a -U root -h mysambahost" and clicking on 
> my printer icon (using Windows XP home, German edition) I get the error 
> message attached to this mail.
> 
> I translate this error message:
> 
>    "The file 'CUPS6.PPD' from (unknown) is needed. Please give the path
>    to the file and then click 'OK'. Copy files from: "c:\windows"."
> 
> 
> Why does my Windows ask for this file, if it's not necessary? Should 
> someone (with permissions) reopen this bug?

I don't know why you are seeing this - I've never seen it on any of
our systems.  Also, we don't export the cups6.ppd file in cupsaddsmb,
so there would be no way for the windows system to get it, even if
it was part of the cups-samba package.

Perhaps this is just a bug in the German version of XP?

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