Lost my printers

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:35 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:57 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> >> Frank Cox wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:44:56 -0400
> >>> Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> After some yum upgrades, my remote printers are no longer available on 
> >>>> my laptop. I suspect CUPS, but I couldn't find any differences with 
> >>>> previous versions of configuration files. Has something changed in the 
> >>>> latest version? A setting that needs to be set to see remote printers? 
> >>>> What am I doing wrong?
> >>> Do your printers show up at http://localhost:631 ?
> >>>
> >> No they do not. They do show up on http://printerhost:631.
> >>
> >>
> > That is not good. Where did printerhost come from and where is it
> > defined. If the printers are not seen in localhost:631 they are not cups
> > printers and will not print.
> > --
> In this case, "printerhost" is a euphemism for the ip address of the 
> server with the printers.
> 
> Andrew
> 
I suspected as much. Then if the printers show up on printerhost:631 but
not in localhost:631 browsing is not working. Somehow the communication
on port 631 between the host and the local machine is not working or is
blocked for some reason.
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