difficulties with remote printer

Ilan Tal ilan.tal at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 04:02:15 PST 2011


I tried "Not listed" in the Choose Printer section.
As you can see it didn't find the printer.
BTW, I turned off the firewall on both computers. I'll turn it back on only after things begin to work. So we now know that there are no firewall problems.

If I check "Show printers shared by other systems" the printer will show up and I can print with it. Then I can also samba share it through the laptop connection. For some strange reason the samba isn't showing the printer on ilan-main. On the other hand, samba definitely IS showing some folders I have shared on ilan-main. Just the printer doesn't want to come through on samba, but it will come through if I use "Show printers....".

This is all very strange and I can't find a logical explanation for it.
Any suggestions????

Thanks,
Ilan

The Problems dump:
Page 1 (Scheduler not running?):
{'cups_connection_failure': False}
Page 2 (Choose printer):
{'cups_dests_available': [('IBM-Infoprint-1650-MFP', None)],
 'cups_queue_listed': False}
Page 3 (Local or remote?):
{'printer_is_remote': True}
Page 4 (Remote address):
{'remote_server_ip_address': '192.168.1.100',
 'remote_server_name': 'ilan-main'}
Page 5 (Check network server sanity):
{'remote_server_name_resolves': False,
 'remote_server_try_connect': 'ilan-main'}
Page 6 (Locale issues):
{'printer_page_size': None,
 'system_locale_lang': None,
 'user_locale_ctype': 'en_US',
 'user_locale_messages': 'en_US'}





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