Fedora 12/13 network printer oddness

[Jim]

On 06/11/2010 05:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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
>    
Yeah that's the same procedure I tried and had problems with it.

All my Computers including a wireless Asus 10 inch mini can print to mine.