Network printing in Fedora 15
antonio montagnani
antonio.montagnani at alice.it
Fri Aug 5 21:16:16 UTC 2011
Aaron Konstam ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 05/08/2011
23:03:
> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 22:06 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>> Tim Waugh ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 04/08/2011 16:04:
>>> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 09:01 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>> I recently upgraded (clean install) my wife to F15 and noticed that
>>>> even after I opened up the firewall for printing that it did not auto
>>>> detect my printers like it had in F14. Am I missing something or is
>>>> this intentional?
>>>
>>> Could you give a bit more detail? What printers were you expecting to
>>> be auto-detected... are they hosted on CUPS instances on the network, or
>>> are they actual network printers?
>>>
>>> Tim.
>>> */
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have exactly the same problem, printer is not auto-detected, and it is
>> detected only if I insert the remote IP.
>> I insert the correct driver, but at a certain step when verifying
>> printer, I get the message that printer is not available!!
>> Firewall is disabled on all network machines.
>> What is the starting point to decode the problem (Printer is a HP2350
>> all in one)?? Same printer with same driver is working fine if directed
>> connected to computer
>>
>> Tnx
> There are 2 secrets that you need to be aware of with printer browsing.
> Only configure the printer on the machine to which it is attached (the
> server)
> Browsing only works if the printers are on the same LAN
>
>
printers are on the same LAN.
Not clear what you mean by saying that printer must be configured only
on the attached machine: I understand that it should be configured also
on the remote machine (or you mean that it should be left as Raw printer??)
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Antonio M
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