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Sharing a printer locally configured on a networked server presents a problem when the server is newly installed (and remains connected to the network):

1. Initial configuration:

• a desktop server (Mageia 1 Beta) is configured with a hp 6MP line printer (parallel port)
• a laptop (Mageia 1 Beta) has this printer configured as a remote printer (configuration done with MCC, printer found via network printer search, address of desktop server provided)

2. New install of RC1 on the desktop server

• MCC->Hardware->Setup printers immediately comes up with a completely configured hp 6MP printer - looks great and like black magic, but:
• at a close look, the printer is configured as a remote printer on the laptop (where it is a remote printer) - and not as a local printer of the server
• impossible to delete this incorrect configuration from the server (delete button dimmed out for the remote printer)

To correct the problem, I had (1) to un-configure the (networked) printer on the laptop, then (2) configure the printer locally on the server and (3) reconfigure the printer on the laptop.

What happens is quite evident - but can be a nasty trap for an unexperienced user (particularly, since - looking at the MCC printer page - the fact the printer is incorrectly configured is not very visible).

I think that system-config-printer should not automatically configure remote printers that, on the target machine, are already configured as a remote printer.

Except this problem, system-config-printer is now working great!