On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:43:14 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:22:18 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
[...]
> * enable Network Printing Client (IPP) packets through the
firewall by
> selection System->Administration->Firewall, selecting the "Network
> Printing Client (IPP)" check-box and clicking Apply.
WOW!! What a difference! I did that on machine #2 (only, so far).
When I click on Printers, I see what the machine thinks are
*nine* : my wife's downstairs is there twice, once as itself and once
with "-fax" appended to it. All the other seven are my one machine, once
as default with my name for the machine it's on, but no IP; the others
have either an IP or some other indication where they are; I'm seeing it
double on #1 (as default and not), and double on #4 (with its same
correct IP both times, not together); sometimes it shows as published,
sometimes not.
I tried to print the router's table, with IP and MAC numbers,
from a browser (Konqueror, despite the fact i run Gnome); but it just
asked me if the printer were connected.
Iiuc, I should go do the same on the other two clients (machine
#3 and #4, no printer attached), but *not* on #1, which does have the
printer, and must therefore be acting as the server. Right?
I did that, but did not try again to print, nor to configure
anything on one machine from another.
I did check the printers listed -- and found no two lists the
same.
#1 shows its own printer, and nothing else, not even my wife's.
#2, as previously reported, shows my wife's twice, and mine seven
different ways on three identifiable (by me) machines.
#3 shows my wife's twice, and mine four times, if you accept the
designation "default" as telling me it's on #1.
#4 machine shows my wife's twice, and mine five times,
identifying them in various ways.
There's more detail, among which it may be of interest that,
somewhere in all that, I noticed an identification of a printer on one
machine, and a driver of a different machine.
Whoo - ooo -- oooie!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.