Printing from Open Office of Fedora 11

jack craig jackc at linuxlighthouse.com
Thu Oct 1 19:28:55 UTC 2009


FWIW, i have a direct attached printer, i also get selinux errors, but i 
get the output too.

have you tried cups setup form a browser using 'localhost:631' ?

just a wag, good luck, jackc...


On 10/01/2009 12:22 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> This morning I configured 2 network attached printers on F11 using hp-setup.
>
> When I tried to print to one of them I got an selinux alert.
>
> SELinux is preventing hp (hplip_t) "name_bind" howl_port_t.
>
> lpstat -t shows the following for the relevant printer:
>
> printer HP_Color_LaserJet_2605dn disabled since Thu 01 Oct 2009 09:36:23 AM
> MST -
>      /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed
>
> The problem appears to be in the printer configuration.  If you look at the
> printer properties and the device URI is similar to this:
>
> hp:/net/HP_Color_laserjet_2605dn?zc=hpcolorjet
>
> where hpcolorjet is the host name of the printer you will get an SELinux
> alert.  If the device URI is similar to this:
>
> hp:/net/HP_Color_laserjet_2605dn?ip=192.168.10.71
>
> then you don't.
>
> When I configured the printers using hp-setup for the 2 new printers I took
> all the default options.
>
> Is this a bug?  What do I file it against. SELinux? hplip?
>
> On a related note.  In unix there used to be 2 commands, enable and disable,
> which were used to enable and disable printers. What is the cups
> equivalent?  The man pages weren't to clear on that.
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo
>
>    

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