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Printing from Fedora 16 and RHEL

Solution:  Open a few firewall ports
system-config-printer

ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere             state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere             state NEW udp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             224.0.0.251          state NEW udp dpt:mdns
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere             state NEW tcp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere             state NEW udp dpt:ipp


NOTE:  The GUI is noticeably slow to respond for certain things.  So, try to be deliberate where you click and then wait for it to respond.  A gut feel would be around 5 seconds max to wait.

Issue:
The "printers" settings applet will not setup a network printer.  You can run system-config-printer which will ask you about opening up some incoming network ports (which doesn't make a ton of sense to me at the moment, but... it allows me to print, so I'm happy... I guess).

Issue #2:  Printer seemed to not be working.  I assume my printer became not-enabled when I attempted to print while I did not have access to that printer.  Whatever...

Solution:  Enable printer.  Click System | Administration | Printing
Right-click the printer and make sure the "Enabled" check box is selected.





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