Globe Trotter: >> I am trying to discover network printers on F11: I fire up >> system-config-printer and ask for this to be searched but nothing is >> found. However, system-config-printer when run on ubuntu is able to find >> the printers without a hitch at all. What is the setting that is not set >> right on F11, and how do I fix it? Anne Wilson: > According to Linux Format this month, if you have SELinux running this is to > be expected, so you'll have to look for a way to allow the broadcast through. I didn't have to fiddle with SELinux to get my Fedora 11 installation to find the printers on my LAN (one served from an old Fedora Core 4 installation, and another from a Fedora 7). All I had to do was make sure that Fedora 11's firewall allowed the CUPS client. I didn't look for a printer using system-config-printer, though. I visited <http://localhost:631/printers/>, and waited for it to show up. There's some delay, but I don't recall that the scan period is very long. Restarting a CUPS client or server usually produces quicker results for the impatient. There's an option to "show printers shared by other systems" that's ticked on the <http://localhost:631/admin> page (which means to *show* printers elsewhere on your LAN, as opposed to just the ones directly connected to the computer you're working on), but I think that was already ticked by default. If your remote printer that you're unable to find is on a different sub-net (e.g. 192.168.1.x versus 192.168.2.x), you may need play with more settings on the server. -- The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
