On 06/11/2010 02:46 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I have an HP Photosmart C5580 connected to my desktop in the office I > have shared under both Fedora 12& 13. The printer queue usually gets > detected by my wife's laptop after I poke the proper holes in both > firewalls. > > I'm not sure what the problem is but it has happened under both F12& > F13. At times her laptop randomly can't see the auto-discovered > printer queue. My computer stays on all the time (it's the BackupPC > server as well) and she shuts hers down every night (no hibernating). > > This morning (although I have noticed this behavior before) I tried to > add the printer manually and opened up system-config-printer and tried > to add it as an IPP printer. I typed in the hostname of my desktop but > the "Verify" or whatever button would never enable. > > I backed out and just chose the more generic option for finding a > network printer and typed in the host name and it worked on the first > try. On the verification step it showed it found it as an IPP printer. > > So some questions: > Why does printer queue autodiscovery seem a bit flaky? > Is the fact I could not add the queue under the IPP option a bug in > system-config-printer? > > Thanks, > Richard > Is your printer setup like this ? Fedora 12 network settings lpd://172.16.1.35/PASSTHRU (using your own IP address) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
