discovering network printers on F11

[Richard England]

On 09/14/2009 03:35 PM, Globe Trotter wrote:
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> --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Stefano<stefano at darchino.ch>  wrote:
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>> From: Stefano<stefano at darchino.ch>
>> Subject: Re: discovering network printers on F11
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:46 PM
>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:35:05 -0700
>> (PDT)
>> Globe Trotter<itsme_410 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to discover network printers on F11: I
>>>        
>> fire up system-config-printer and ask for this to be
>> searched but nothing is found. However,
>> system-config-printer when run on ubuntu is able to find the
>> printers without a hitch at all. What is the setting that is
>> not set right on F11, and how do I fix it?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Tray to enable client ipp, for network print, in Firewall
>> (see in System Administration).
>>
>> Bye
>> Ste
>>      
> Hi,
>
> Thanks very much! I enabled this (as well as the ipp server) but it had no effect: clicking on the search for network printers and got nothing. My /var/log messages reported the following lines:
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> hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
> python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best,
> T
>    

Are the printers truly network printers or are they printers attached to 
other systems (and what are these systems if they exist)?

If the other printers are on Windows, have you tried enabling samba 
ports on the firewall?

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