Can No Longer See Networked Printer (SOLVED)

[Rick Stevens]

Micros50 wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 14:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
>> Obviously something changed.  Was the machine updated automatically?
>>
>> Did you check its firewall settings to make sure printing is allowed? 
>> You can try turning off iptables ("service iptables stop" as root) and
>> see if it works.  If so, make sure you allow IPP through its firewall
>> (TCP/UDP port 631).
>>
>> Is selinux enabled?  Try "setenforce permissive" to see if that's it.
> 
> 
> Solved.  yes, it turned out it was an iptables issue. It's working fine
> now. Thanks for the help.

Glad you got it working!  After an update, the two most common problems
are SELinux policy and iptables changes.  That's where I almost always
start my investigations.
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