On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:44 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:54 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > I am having difficulty printing to remote printers using cups from > > within openoffice on FC6. I have FC4 and FC5 systems on the same remote > > stations and they work fine. Also other software on the FC6 machine > > like evolution works fine with remote printing. Printing locally (on the > > same subnet) on this FC6 machine also works fine. > > > > When trying to print remotely via openoffice on this FC6 machine the > > print menu displays all of the local as well as the remote printers. If > > a local printer is picked the print tab button is active. If a remote > > printer is picked the print tab button is inactive which prevents > > printing. > > > > abiword can be used to print the document locally or remotely on this > > FC6 machine. > > > > I have been waiting for this to be fixed, but have not entered a bug > > report. Thought I would ask here first. > > > > Greg Ennis > > > We need a little more clarification. That is , the definition of locally > and remotely. Is there a printer attached directly to the FC6 machine? > Can other machines on the subnet print to it? Is remote printing to a > printer on a different subnet or to a printer not attached to the > machine on the same subnet? > -- Aaron, Thanks for your help. The problem was related to a bug already reported: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213119 To answer your questions. I have no printer connected to the designated FC6 machine in question. Yes, other machines on the same subnet can print to the printers on the same subnet as well as remote subnets. Yes remote printing to a different subnet works fine on all PC's within the specified subnet. The problem was not related to cups or the different subnets of each network it was related to openoffice. The following change, documented in the above bug, fixed the problem. "If you use tools->options->openoffice.org->options and toggle on the checkbox "use openoffice.org dialog" and then use file->print you will see the "traditional" print dialog" When I set openoffice to use the "traditional" print dialog remote printing via cups worked normally within openoffice. Greg
