Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:39 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 12:03 PM, Bill wrote:
> > On 06/10/2011 02:48 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
> >> Do you mean the firewall on the desktop or the laptop.  Both need to allow
> >> the cups on the client (laptop) to talk to the cups on the server (desktop).
> >
> > Both.
> >
> >> Perhaps you could try opening a browser window on the laptop and
> >> going to:
> >>     http://192.168.2.3:631
> >> and the desktop cups server should answer, I think.
> >
> > I thought the same thing and tried, but the web page is not available.
> > Could that indicate a misconfigured firewall somewhere? (I'm really
> > getting out of my league when it comes to firewalls and networking. I
> > have succeeded in setting the network up, and have even done some
> > port-forwarding and tunneling, but do not understand what I have done! I
> > just research and follow instructions and try until it works. I'm
> > remedial when it comes to this stuff.)
> >
> 
> Oh, of course; it's set for the IP of my computer on my LAN.  Change the 
> IP to 207.0.0.1 (Localhost) and it should work.  Not sure why that
> happened, but, in my defence, it works for me so I never noticed.
On what machine is 207,,0.0.1 is localhost rather than 127.0.0.1.


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