On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:08 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 21:31 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > I have two installations of F7 on laptops that replaced Fc5 and Fc6 that > > have gone very well except for using remote cups printers on different > > networks. This function worked well on Fc5 and Fc6. > > > > When trying to print an e-mail message all the printers are listed, but > > the "PRINT" tab becomes shaded for the printers outside of the local > > network. > > > > This same symptom was present in OppenOffice of F7 but was remedied by > > checking the "Use OpenOffice dialogs" checkbox in the options. > > . > > This appears to be a bug in evolution and openoffice, but before I > > filled out a bug report I was hoping someone might have a fix. > > > > All the networked cups printers can be accessed via the command line so > > cups seems to be working perfectly. > > > > Thank for your help, > > > > Greg Ennis > This is totally controlled by the client.conf and cupsd.conf files on > the client and the server(s). For example, not specifying a server in > the client.conf file on the clients will only alllow you to print to > printers on the same lan. the cupsd.conf on the server(s) determine to > what newtworks will the printer broadcaqting be done. > > If it worked in FC5 and FC6 then your files on those systems were > different then your current files. You should check the manuals at > localhost:631. > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Aaron, Thanks for your response. I checked the client.conf file and cupsd.conf file and there were some slight differences between what I had on the old FC5 system and the new F7 system so I don't think the problem is related to this. In fact I swapped out both files with the older files just to see and the same symptoms occur. I also have different FC6 on this same network, and cups is set up with very similar settings, and everything works perfectly on it. The FC6 evolution is 2.8.3 whereas the F7 evolution is 2.10.1. The printers are listed using lpstat -a on both systems, and on both systems when I try to print from within evolution I get the same printer listings, but the F7 evolution has the "Print" tab shaded when I try to print to a printer outside of my local network. I can print remotely on F7 from the command line using lp -d lpt10 ./filename, and lpt10 is displayed on the F7 evolution, but the "Print" tab is shaded when I select lpt10 making the print function unreachable. Thank you for your suggestion to take a hard look at the config files, but they are working like cups should be working. If you or others have additional ideas .... please help. Greg
