Re: Printing considered hard?

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On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 17:57 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 16:06 -0500 schrieb Aaron Konstam:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:36 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am sitting here in my new office and want to print from my fedora 11
> > > machine. Epic fail.
> > > 
> > > I just had to add ServerName and Encryption to /cups/client.conf and the
> > > basic tools (lpr) work. But printing from firefox is impossible (print
> > > dlg. freezes) and setting up this config from the printer dialog is
> > > impossible to (connect to server shows the printers but everytime I
> > > select one I get a connection error without further information).
> > > 
> > > How is one supposed to print in todays fedora?
> > > 
> > > regards
> > > 
> > > Christoph
> > If the client is on the same LAN as the server you should not have to
> > touch client.conf. Cups does not know the difference between lpr
> > printing and firefox printing so something sounds fishy, How about other
> > applications printing. If firefox is the only one that fails then the
> > problem is with firefox.
> 
> It's not only firefox it is the whole Gtk/Gnome print subsystem. Every
> Gnome/Gtk App cannot print. Editing client.conf is a hack. And I guess
> it works without guarantee.
----
When Tim Waugh is offering to help you, you should ignore everyone else
and work with him since he is Red Hat/Fedora printing guru.

Craig


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