CUPS Dilemna

[Chris Hewitt]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 04:20, mylar wrote:
> I have a network with several Linux and Windows machines. The Linux
> machines are running Fedora 1 and Fedora 3 and one of the Linux machines
> (running Fedora 1) has a printer attached to it and on that machine I am
> running CUPS set appropriatly to share that printer queue with all other
> machines on the network. It works fine, problem free except on one Linux
> machine running Fedora three where no "browsed queues" show up. The odd
> thing was that machine was seeing the queue in it's list of browsed
> queues up till a few days ago. I thought perhaps the machine with the
> printer attached wasn't broadcasting it's queue anymore for some strange
> reason but that isd unlikely being that all other machines on the
> network see the printer with no problem. I checked the CUPS
> configuration on the problem machine and all seems normal. Nothing was
> changed and the daemon is up and running normally. The machine seems to
> be networked normally I can ping, telnet and ssh into all other
> networked machines as well as access the Internet.
> 
> Am I missing anything ? Any preliminary ideas why the printer would
> suddenly dissapear and only to one machine on the network ? This is
> really bizarre. 
> 
> mylar

You haven't changed the firewall on that computer have you? Port 631
needs to be open.

Just a thought.

Chris