On 11/14/2011 10:52 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:13 -0500, Tim Evans wrote: >> New F16 install (fresh install, not preupgrade). Printer setup says: >> >> FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, >> ipp, ipp-client and samba-client enabled on firewall. >> >> If firewall isn't running, why does it say all this stuff need to be >> enabled on firewall? Or am I mis-reading this? > > "FirewallD" is the mechanism for configuring the firewall. Without that > mechanism running, the firewall cannot be modified by that program > (GNOME System Settings, 'printers' plugin). It doesn't mean the > firewall is not running, just that it cannot be altered by the program. > > The ability to configure network printers using the GNOME System > Settings program is fairly basic at the moment. You may have more luck > with system-config-printer (Applications -> Other -> Printing).
Thanks for the explanation of the message, and for the reminder system-config-printer still exists. Works fine, and it did prompt for opening the firewall (I expect I'll disable the firewall, since I'm behind a dedicated firewall system anyway). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
