F18: how can I share printers??

[Thomas Woerner]

On 02/13/2013 04:15 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> fedora ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 13/02/2013 16:10:
>> Ciao Antonio
>> Do you use cups on your Printer Server? To find out, take a browser and
>> enter the URL http://your.printer.server:631.
>> If bloudy firewall stays in between, open port 631
>> If you get a page on the above URL, then printing on your client is as
>> easy as:
>>
>> on your client host, edit the file /etc/cups/client.conf and enter a
>> line like
>>
>> ServerName your.printer.server
>>
>> If that file does not exist, create it and enter the line above. If the
>> /etc/cups directory does not exist, create it and put the above file
>> therein.
>> After having created/edited this file, check to see which printers are
>> available:
>> In a terminal window enter the following command:
>>
>> lpstat -p
>>
>> and start printing on them.
>>
>> suomi
>>
>> On 2013-02-13 15:25, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>> Tim Waugh ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 13/02/2013
>>> 12:12:
>>>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:43 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>>> what am I missing??? and which are the correct tools???
>>>>
>>>> If you use system-config-printer, or its troubleshooter, you might find
>>>> what's up.
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that firewalld is preventing CUPS Browse packets from being
>>>> received.
>>>>
>>>> Tim.
>>>> */
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   yes, but as I am new to firewalld, what shall I do in order to share
>>> printer.I don't see any cups service to let open
>>> A point is: is sharing in Fedora easy for a standard user??? because we
>>> are loosing the point of usability in my opinion, unless you disable
>>> firewalld on all your networked computer
>>>
> I am working as a newbie user, so I added the printer locally and it
> works: from another networked computer I tried to add but it is not seen
> remotely.
> I think that a standard user has not to know if it is shared by cups or
> any other devil tools, he expects to see on the list of shareable
> printers, that's all. Please note that it was like this in F17, I don't
> see why I lost my printer remotely in F17. And I think that we should
> think also about easiness of use.
>
You lost your printer in an F-17 installation? As long as were not 
manually installing firewalld in your F-17 machine, this is not related 
to firewalld.