On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The hard drive on my F12 system recently failed, and I decided it was > easiest to simply start from scratch. So what I'm dealing with now is > a clean install of F13 from DVD, updated. The printer in our office is > shared from a well-established Windows machine. It is the same machine > that was used when I was printing from F12. > > I go to System->Administration->Printing and select Add. Then I'm > asked to provide my root password twice -- what's up with that? > > So I now select "Network Printer" and "Find Network Printer" then > enter the hostname (it's correct; I've triple-checked). The dialog > says "Searching..." for a long time and finally, "No printer was found > at that address." > > Now what? Did you remember to poke a hole in your firewall? Assuming it's not shared as an IPP printer, you need to open system-config-firewall and check the box next to the Samba entry and apply it. Richard -- 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
