On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:52 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > Sometime recently, printing stopped working in some applications. > > I can go into System->Administration->Printing and print a test page. > And I can print without problem with OpenOffice Writer. > > Firefox won't print anymore. It pops up the dialog with the progress > bar stating it's printing, which quickly disappears, but the little > tray icon that indicates printing never shows up and the printer never > wakes up. > > Gedit pops up a dialog complaining "Can't prompt for authorization" > when I try to print from it. > > I see nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. Should I be looking > somewhere else for printer-related messages? cups messages are in: /var/log/cups in files like error_log > > The printer, for its part, is shared from a Windows machine in our > office, so the Device URI is of the "smb://" variety. > > Printing used to work all around. I don't print very often, so I'm not > sure when it stopped working. > -- ======================================================================= Who is D.B. Cooper, and where is he now? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines