On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:08, Derek Jennings wrote: > > That is assuming you have cups running on both computers and you are not > > using a firewall in either computer. > > (The firewall will block traffic both to the internet **and the local > > network**. You have to open up the local network to printer traffic) > > The Cups servers in each computer will discover each other and allow > > their printers to be shared. > > If the firewall has been set to allow local (lan) traffic no additional > entry is required. That's how mine works. > > Anne
That may be how your firewall is configured, but it is not the default. I was trying to emphasise the point that the standard Mandriva firewall will block traffic to the local network. Many people get caught out by that. The symptoms you get include, being able to see remote printers, or Windows computers, but not being able to access them. The firewall GUI in Mandriva Control Centre does not allow you to discriminate between the internet and the local network (major shortcoming IMO), you have to use webmin or edit the files by hand to open up the ports. Or as you have done to open up the local network entirely. The firewall issue is something that be-devils newbies trying to network Windows and Linux computers so I like to mention it frequently :-) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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