On Wednesday 16 September 2009 22:40:09 Globe Trotter wrote: > --- On Tue, 9/15/09, Anne Wilson <an...@kde.org> wrote: > > From: Anne Wilson <an...@kde.org> > > Subject: Re: discovering network printers on F11 > > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > > <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 7:20 AM > > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:37:37 > > > > Tim Waugh wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > According to Linux Format this month, if you have > > > > SELinux running this is > > > > > > to be expected, so you'll have to look for a way > > > > to allow the broadcast > > > > > > through. > > > > > > Eh?? > > > > Right or wrong, the statement was that the default SELinux > > blocked network > > printers. I haven't got it in front of me, but it > > went on to say what needed > > allowing in SELinux to make it work. > > > > Don't shoot the messenger ;-) > > Thanks, Anne. Where is this article?
I had mis-remembered. What it actually said (page 10, if you have LXF 124, November) was that the firewall by default turns of multicasting. The 'comment' is a bit of a rant, saying that if something as vital as this is disabled there should be some way of alerting you to it. > Btw, I went and disabled selinux using > system-config-selinux but the printers were still not discovered. I have > reverted it back to enforcing, but I wonder what the problem is, and how > to troubleshoot it. > That rules out SELinux, then. If you haven't done so, check firewalls - but I think someone already told you to do that. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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