Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

[Bill]

On 06/10/2011 04:13 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:56 -0400, Bill wrote:
>
>> Greg, I had hplip installed, and when I tried the setup command the
>> system replied that I needed to install hplip-gui.
>
> That is definitely not what happened when I did it. Try logging in to a
> text console where there is no display, and see if hp-setup will work in
> command-line mode. Even if it fails, you might get a more useful error
> message this way.
>
> Be sure to run it on the host that has the printer connected to it. Then
> you may also need to add the printer on the print client host.
>
> --Greg
>
>

Oh man! I was doing the hplip stuff on the laptop (guest), not the 
desktop. Should have known that. I'll try again. Thanks. (..."the print 
client host"; is that the laptop - the computer without the printer 
connected?)

-- 
Regards,
Bill