Can't Find printers ??

Micros50 micros50 at verizon.net
Wed Jan 20 22:22:00 UTC 2010


Thanks... That fixed the problem. I was thinking so much about SELinux
that I forgot all about checking the default firewall settings.  It's
all good now. Thanks.

Ciao

John


On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:12 -0800, Ted Potter wrote:
> 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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