On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:38 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > 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 > Well if lpstat says the printer is availble and lpr can print to the printer, you have convinced me that is a problem with evolution. It is a mystery though why printine works for me. However all my printers are on the same lan. -- ======================================================================= You can rent this space for only $5 a week. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
