weird F12 printing problem

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Mon Feb 15 16:20:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:12:54PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 04:07 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> > > I don't know if this will help but sometimes I have found that a printer
> > > seems to be shared  according to the Fedora printer admin interface but
> > > does not work - in this situation going to localhost:631 in a browser and
> > > selecting that the printer concerned is "published" as a shared printer
> > > usually sorts this out for me.
> 
> For a CUPS printer to be usable by another machine, you need:
> 
> 1. the printer to be marked as 'Shared' (the Printer-> Shared checkbox)
> 2. the CUPS server to 'Publish shared printers' (Server-> Settings...->
> Public shared printers connected to this system)
> 3. the firewall settings on the server to allow 'Network Printing
> Server'
> 4. the firewall settings on the client to allow 'Network Printing
> Client'
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 

It's NOT a shared printer. it is attached to the LAN with its own IP address.

I ran the troubleshooter and it did not turn up anything helpful.

every computer in the house as well as a couple of laptops all print to it
as an IPP printer, successfully (from various versions of LInux and also
from Windoze XP). Only this one F12 installation has trouble using it as
an IPP printer.



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