Can't Find printers ??

[Ted Potter]

check your firewall settings.



On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Micros50 <micros50 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded one of my machines to Fedora 12. So far so good except
> when it comes to printing over my network.
>
> I have 2 shared printers attached to my network. One (we'll call it
> "printer A") is a stand alone Ethernet printer connected to my local
> network via wireless access. The other ("printer B") is connected via a
> computer and shared over the network via CUPS.
>
> Normally when I configure printing (on fedora 11 and previous versions)
> I open the printer config tool and the printers (both A and B) are
> automatically detected.
>
> However, for some strange reason fedora 12 is not able to see any of
> these shared networked printers. The ONLY way I could get it to print
> was to enter the exact IP address of the wireless printer. But that's no
> good since the printer connects via DHCP and it's address is subject to
> change. And the other printer (printer B) is not found at all.
>
> Any ideas what might be going on here ? Anything simple that I might be
> overlooking ? I did a quick check of the docs but found nothing
> specific.  Any help, suggestions, etc. are appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Ciao
>
> John.
>
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