Printing considered hard?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 10:39 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: 
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 17:04 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> >
> > The change you will be expected to make on the client is to allow CUPS
> > broadcast packets from the server.  To do that:
> >
> > 1. System->Administration->Firewall
> > 2. Make sure 'Network Printing Client (IPP)' is enabled
> > 3. Click 'Apply'
> 
> I think I may be having the same (or similar problem). I've been
> running F11 on my desktop since shortly after release but my wife as
> been running F10 until just recently, however the problem seemed to be
> present for her on both F10 and F11. She was using auto-discovered
> printer queues for a while but at some point they just disappeared so
> I manually configured my printer (over IPP). After upgrading her
> (actually fresh install) to F11 and opening up the firewall
> auto-discover once again worked (for a day or two), then just
> yesterday she tried to print and all the printer queues were gone
> again.
> 
> My network is a simple home network, all one subnet (192.168.0.X) She
> is working over wireless on a laptop but that shouldn't matter. She
> does not sleep/hibernate her laptop as it doesn't work well so that
> shouldn't be causing any issues.
> 
> I can provide more config info but nothing was changed by me or my
> wife from the time it was working to the time it stopped.
> 
> Richard
> 
Something must have changed but I believe you that you don't know what
it is. The printers should be configured on only one machine and the
other(s) should pick up the configuration info from that one machine
(the server). Is that what you are doing?
What is harder to do is to have a machine with a local printer pick up
the info on the printers configured on the server. Is that what you are
trying to do?

Which is the situation in your LAN?
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