> > > Try turning off firewall completely. > > > > > > My guess - and I have no way of testing this, is that Mac users don't > > > transmit on cups port but transmit on afp over tcp port (548) and thus > > > the firewall settings to allow for printer sharing apply only to the > > > Macs. > > > > > > That's my guess - I was hoping that someone who has done this would pipe > > > up - obviously the other advice didn't understand your problem. > > > > > > Craig > > > > I thought it might be the firewall at first also. When you enable > > 'Printer Sharing' on OS X, it automatically opens ports 631 and 515. > > 515 shows up as the printer service in /etc/services. No listing for > > 631 in /etc/services, but Google says that it is used by CUPS (ipp). > > Apple's docs don't say much other than the following: > > > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152248 > > > > Note: Shared Mac OS X printers are automatically available to UNIX users > > who are using the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). > > > > Other then what I've done so far, is there anything else you need to do > > on Fedora to print to a network printer? This seems like some CUPS > > setting is unset or set incorrectly on either the print server or the > > client. I'm leaning toward the client due to the fact that I can print > > to the server from other machines, albeit, non-Fedora machines. > > > > > > Ian > > > Ok, that port looks good for cups. What about the printer > drivers/filters? > > On Linux when sharing a printer with another machine you usually have to > have 2 print queues for one printer, one for local printing and one for > remote printing. > > The default setup for a printer is to have the driver/filter loaded on > the printing machine so that the raw file is put into the queue and is > then formatted at print time. When sending it to another machine for > printing via cups the file is formatted for printing prior to sending to > the remote queue and thus will get passed thru the filter twice (which > won't work). > > To take care of that I set one print queue for local use, then I set > another shared queue as a raw print queue so preformatted jobs from > remote machines do not get processed the second time. > > How does MAC handle the printing? OS X uses CUPS. If it uses two queues for printing, it hides it behind all the candy-coated goodness. > The key to this is when the file gets formatted. Windows formats prior > to putting in the queue. Linux formats when removing from the queue and > sending to the printer. When does MAC do the formatting? I dunno. I would have to dig around and find out. The problem turned out to be a DNS issue which I identified using Ethereal. You may have missed may post about the solution. For now it just works, and I mean Fedora ;) Ian
