Can No Longer See Networked Printer

Micros50 micros50 at verizon.net
Mon Oct 19 19:06:43 UTC 2009


Hello,

I have a small, in-house network consisting of several Linux machines
(running Fedora). One of the machines is attached to a printer and the
printer is published via Cups so it can be seen and utilized by all the
other machines on the network.

Thus far everything works great. All machines can see the printer and
all machines can print to it.  That's just the way it should be...
EXCEPT!!!

Except for one machine downstairs. It was seeing and printing to the
printer just fine. Now, all of a sudden, over the last couple of days it
no longer see's any networked printers. It was accessing and printing to
the networked printer just fine up until a couple days ago.  Now, it is
suddenly the only machine on my network that can't see or access the
printer.

So, where do I begin to troubleshoot this problem ? The only possible
change that may have occur ed over the last couple of days is that Cups
may have been updated during a routine yum update. But all my other
machines have been updated similarly and they are not experiencing this
problem. Furthermore I checked the config files and everything looks
okay.

Any ideas ? The machine that is having the issue is running Fedora 11.
But, so are most machines on my network, and they are having no issues
with printing.


Any help appreciated.... Thanks

John.





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