Fedora 15 Network Printer Problems

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 -0400, Bill wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 02:48 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
> > Do you mean the firewall on the desktop or the laptop.  Both need to allow
> > the cups on the client (laptop) to talk to the cups on the server (desktop).
> 
> Both.
> 
> > Perhaps you could try opening a browser window on the laptop and
> > going to:
> >    http://192.168.2.3:631
> > and the desktop cups server should answer, I think.
> 
> I thought the same thing and tried, but the web page is not available. 
> Could that indicate a misconfigured firewall somewhere? (I'm really 
> getting out of my league when it comes to firewalls and networking. I 
> have succeeded in setting the network up, and have even done some 
> port-forwarding and tunneling, but do not understand what I have done! I 
> just research and follow instructions and try until it works. I'm 
> remedial when it comes to this stuff.)
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Bill

I assume that 192.168.2.3 is the localhost. Yes? It is safer to be sure
and open: http://localhost:631. A web page should open if cups is
running.
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