FC3 Print Sharing

[Steve Croteau]

On Friday 08 July 2005 12:07 pm, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:15 -0700, Steve Croteau wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > I stopped the firewall on both computers, opened the server sharing to
> > 'all hosts' then rebooted.
> >
> > After that I received a 'connection refused' message using the
> > command:
> >
> > telnet 192.168.0.2 631
> >
> >
> > http://localhost:631 in Firefox (on the server) shows a happy little
> > deskjet-5550-2 ready to go.
> >
> > http://localhost:631 in Firefox (on the client) shows:
> >
> > Use system-config-printer to edit this!
> > Location: hp on sjc
> > Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
> > "Network host '192.168.0.2' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."
> > Device URI: http://192.168.0.2:631/printers/deskjet-5550-2
> >
> > What's interesting to me is that this device URI shows http.  In the
> > print config GUI, I've selected IPP with only 192.168.0.2 in the Server
> > field.
> >
> > I don't know what to do about this.  Apparantly it's stumping several of
> > you smart guys.  Hmm...... what about the firewall built into the Netgear
> > router? It was never an issue when I had SuSE 9.1 but could it play into
> > this at all?
> >
> > Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> The firewall in the Netgear should not affect the LAN side.  Only
> traffic between the WAN and LAN (AFAIK).  It appears that cupsd is not
> accepting the connection.
>
> The printer state from above is interesting.  Was the printer really
> busy when you ran firefox?  IIRC that was the same error you were seeing
> at the client.
>
> Bob...

Bob,

The printer is never busy when I'm working on this.  I also look to make sure 
there aren't any jobs queued up and waiting.

Steve