F13 - can't detect network printer

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> The hard drive on my F12 system recently failed, and I decided it was
> easiest to simply start from scratch. So what I'm dealing with now is
> a clean install of F13 from DVD, updated. The printer in our office is
> shared from a well-established Windows machine. It is the same machine
> that was used when I was printing from F12.
>
> I go to System->Administration->Printing and select Add. Then I'm
> asked to provide my root password twice -- what's up with that?
>
> So I now select "Network Printer" and "Find Network Printer" then
> enter the hostname (it's correct; I've triple-checked). The dialog
> says "Searching..." for a long time and finally, "No printer was found
> at that address."
>
> Now what?

Did you remember to poke a hole in your firewall? Assuming it's not
shared as an IPP printer, you need to open system-config-firewall and
check the box next to the Samba entry and apply it.

Richard