[GRLUG] firewall-printer setup disagreement

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Mon Oct 1 17:30:30 EDT 2012


Got it:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=159950

"The trick part is to get the printer address right.

Choose for device "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" and as address:

Code: socket://printerIP:9100

Then select the apropriate driver for your model (do not try to use
generic drivers that´s not for your specifc printer)"


On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:12 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> Well the printer installed, but CUPS is not printing to it. Keep getting
> "unable to find printer" or "printer not responding" messages. I can
> ping the print server (TrendNet TE-100P-1U) OK, and the setup worked
> fine with Fedora 15. I've tried restarting the print server and
> restarting the printer. 
> 
> 
> Description:	B/W laser printer
> Location:	
> Driver:	Brother HL-1440 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 (grayscale, 2-sided
> printing)
> Connection:	dnssd://PS-742289-U1._printer._tcp.local/
> Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided
> 
> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 15:21 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > ??
> > The printer installed fine through CUPS. So I'll let someone else figure
> > out why the System Setting tool doesn't work.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 14:57 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > > Trying to set up a printer on my LAN. The "Add a new printer dialog"
> > > tells me:
> > > 
> > > "FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services
> > > mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client enabled on firewall."
> > > 
> > > The firewall config dialog tells me those services are enabled on the
> > > firewall, gives me the ports that have been enabled, and tells me "The
> > > firewall is enabled. 
> > > 
> > > I've rebooted the computer and that hasn't helped.
> > > 
> > > Running Fedora 17.
> > > 
> > > WTF?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
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