Re: weird F12 printing problem

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:46:25PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:20 -0500, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:12:54PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 04:07 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote:
I don't know if this will help but sometimes I have found that a printer
seems to be shared according to the Fedora printer admin interface but
does not work - in this situation going to localhost:631 in a browser and
selecting that the printer concerned is "published" as a shared printer
usually sorts this out for me.

For a CUPS printer to be usable by another machine, you need:

1. the printer to be marked as 'Shared' (the Printer-> Shared checkbox)
2. the CUPS server to 'Publish shared printers' (Server-> Settings...->
Public shared printers connected to this system)
3. the firewall settings on the server to allow 'Network Printing
Server'
4. the firewall settings on the client to allow 'Network Printing
Client'

Tim.
*/


It's NOT a shared printer. it is attached to the LAN with its own IP address.
Even so it needs to shared on the server that is distributing its
services to the rest of the machines. Or are you connecting it to each
computer independently. In my opinion that is a bad idea and can cause
the problem you report.

It only needs to be shared if all the other computers are printing
via that share.

Since they AREN'T, it doesn't need to be shared.

the printer supports lpd, ipp/http, jetdirect, and probably a handful
of other printing protocols, so it contains its own spool manager
and works just peachy when all computers print directly to it.

it spends about 99.999% of its time sitting idle. we don't print much
here, and I doubt we've ever had two different systems printing to it
at the same time. but even if we did, it would be expected to work fine,
given its internal print spooling implementations.


I ran the troubleshooter and it did not turn up anything helpful.

every computer in the house as well as a couple of laptops all print to it
as an IPP printer, successfully (from various versions of LInux and also
from Windoze XP). Only this one F12 installation has trouble using it as
an IPP printer.



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