Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 06/11/2010 02:46 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> I have an HP Photosmart C5580 connected to my desktop in the office I
>> have shared under both Fedora 12&  13. The printer queue usually gets
>> detected by my wife's laptop after I poke the proper holes in both
>> firewalls.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the problem is but it has happened under both F12&
>> F13. At times her laptop randomly can't see the auto-discovered
>> printer queue. My computer stays on all the time (it's the BackupPC
>> server as well) and she shuts hers down every night (no hibernating).
>>
>> This morning (although I have noticed this behavior before) I tried to
>> add the printer manually and opened up system-config-printer and tried
>> to add it as an IPP printer. I typed in the hostname of my desktop but
>> the "Verify" or whatever button would never enable.
>>
>> I backed out and just chose the more generic option for finding a
>> network printer and typed in the host name and it worked on the first
>> try. On the verification step it showed it found it as an IPP printer.
>>
>> So some questions:
>> Why does printer queue autodiscovery seem a bit flaky?
>> Is the fact I could not add the queue under the IPP option a bug in
>> system-config-printer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
> Is your printer setup like this ?  Fedora 12 network settings
>
> lpd://172.16.1.35/PASSTHRU    (using your own IP address)

No, it's connected through IPP:

ipp://hobbes.localdomain:631/printers/Photosmart-C5500-series

Richard