difficulties with remote printer

[Ilan Tal]

Tim,
You are an absolute genius! I never actively setup any firewall so I had no idea what was there. I added firestarter from the package manager and ran through it turning off any firewall. I did the same thing on my laptop.
Suddenly it started to work! Unbelievable! Thank you very, very much!!!

BTW, there is a Catch-22 situation in what you suggest. I can't get information in the case where it does *not* work because I couldn't see the printer to choose it. Still the firewall solved the problem, so who cares??

While I have you, do you have any suggestions if I should have a firewall in place? I am sitting behind my router on a private network so it isn't obvious to me what a firewall will give me, or what I should choose if it is needed.

Again, thanks for your lovely suggestion. I was going crazy as I didn't know what else to check.

Ilan
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> --=-8fd7J51YZbZQ6ZiPUjJA
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 00:42 -0800, Ilan Tal wrote:
> > I was hoping that someone might look at the debug output and understand f=
> rom it why I can't see the printer remotely from ilan-main.
> > I'll cut and paste the printouts, which are rather long.
>
> Probably you have different firewall settings on the machines.
>
> The troubleshoot information would be much more useful if you used it in
> a situation where printing does *not* work -- i.e. use it from the
> machine the printer is *not* connected to.
>
> Tim.