Printing considered hard?

[Christoph Höger]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 16:06 -0500 schrieb Aaron Konstam:
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:36 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am sitting here in my new office and want to print from my fedora 11
> > machine. Epic fail.
> > 
> > I just had to add ServerName and Encryption to /cups/client.conf and the
> > basic tools (lpr) work. But printing from firefox is impossible (print
> > dlg. freezes) and setting up this config from the printer dialog is
> > impossible to (connect to server shows the printers but everytime I
> > select one I get a connection error without further information).
> > 
> > How is one supposed to print in todays fedora?
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Christoph
> If the client is on the same LAN as the server you should not have to
> touch client.conf. Cups does not know the difference between lpr
> printing and firefox printing so something sounds fishy, How about other
> applications printing. If firefox is the only one that fails then the
> problem is with firefox.

It's not only firefox it is the whole Gtk/Gnome print subsystem. Every
Gnome/Gtk App cannot print. Editing client.conf is a hack. And I guess
it works without guarantee.
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