FC3 RC3 - Networked LPD server printing still not working.

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 30 17:48:25 UTC 2004


Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 08:23 pm, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>>I have just done a fresh install of FC3, Release Candidate 3.  Printing
>>to a networked LPD server still will not work.  This is a bug (#133064)
>>that is assigned to the kernel.   Telnet to the print server fails, but
>>ping succeeds.  FC2 telnets fine to the print server.
>>
>>Gerry Tool
> 
> For the Record, 
> 
>       I have also installed Fedora Core 3 and I am also having problems with 
> network printing, the only difference that I am having is with connecting to 
> a remote CUPS server on my local network.  This seems to be a problem also 
> when I had Fedora Core 2 installed as well.  Ironically, when I had a 
> different distribution of Linux on my server, the other computers could "see" 
> the print server without having to set up printing through the KDE print 
> manager.  This bug needs to be worked out before the official release.
> 
> 
> Jeff D. Yuille
> 
It might be useful for you to add your comments to bugzilla #133064. 
That bug report has been reassigned to the kernel, and even though it is 
for remote LPD servers, the problem with remote CUPS servers may be from 
the same root cause.

Gerry




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