discovering network printers on F11
Globe Trotter
itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 16 21:40:09 UTC 2009
--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> From: Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: discovering network printers on F11
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 7:20 AM
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:37:37
> Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > According to Linux Format this month, if you have
> SELinux running this is
> > > to be expected, so you'll have to look for a way
> to allow the broadcast
> > > through.
> >
> > Eh??
> >
> Right or wrong, the statement was that the default SELinux
> blocked network
> printers. I haven't got it in front of me, but it
> went on to say what needed
> allowing in SELinux to make it work.
>
> Don't shoot the messenger ;-)
Thanks, Anne. Where is this article? Btw, I went and disabled selinux using system-config-selinux but the printers were still not discovered. I have reverted it back to enforcing, but I wonder what the problem is, and how to troubleshoot it.
Best wishes,
Trotter
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