no printing with gnome print dialog

Kevin DeKorte kdekorte at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 17:47:35 UTC 2008


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Tim Waugh wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:13 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
|> Hey, wait a second. If the port was firewalled (and it was), how was it
|> that other applications could print? How did it only affect the
|> gnome-print dialog?
|
| Other applications could print but the job would be continually retrying
| until the firewall was opened on the server.
|
| The difference with the GTK+ print dialog is that it fetches the PPD for
| the queue in order to provide correct default values in the option
| widgets.  If this PPD exists but cannot be fetched, the 'Print' button
| is made insensitive.
|
| Tim.
| */
|
|

I had this same exact problem early on in rawhide testing, I'm sure it
is in the mailing list somewhere.

I think I had to enable "Remote Administation" in the Printing Server
Settings "System->Adminstration->Printing"

After that printing worked correctly from Firefox.

Kevin


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