Using shared printer in Fedora 9

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 9 22:08:16 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:30 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> > We have here an ancient Windows machine sharing the main company
> > printer, an HPLJ/1100. My shiny new Fedora 9 workstation can't see
> > this printer to save its digital life.
> > 
> > Beside my workstation is a CentOS 5.1 installation. On this machine, I
> > run system-config-printer and have no trouble at all setting up the
> > same printer and printing a test page. I just enter the SMB path to
> > the printer, enter the share's username and password, and I'm done.
> > Not so with my Fedora 9 machine. No error messages, nothing in any log
> > files that I can find. Nothing.
> > 
> > Does anybody have advice about where I could look to figure out what's wrong?
> ----
> sorry...I meant to provide this to you
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453951
> 
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in case it's not clear, remove this line from /etc/cups/printers.conf

AuthInfoRequired negotiate

it's a print killer

Craig




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