Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2008-10-27 at 09:23 +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Birger Kollstrand wrote:
I noticed that the internal firewall blocks by default for CUPS printers in the network.
Is this by the design or is it a bug?
The external zone by default has no ports open. That's intentional of course.
Printing to a printer needs opening ports? :-? I thought we needed opening the port only if other computers wanted to print to "my" cups.
Most of the time you do not need to manually configure a print server in cups. Cups instead listens for broadcasts to discover print servers automatically. For that purpose you need to open a port or otherwise unblock your LAN.
If it needs opening a port, shouldn't yast automatically open it, or at least, advise to open it, as soon as it knows I want to use a network printer?
There is a warning message in the printer proposal when installing without automatic mode IIRC. Opening the port in the external zone is not necessarily the correct thing to do anyways, better set your LAN interface to internal (ie unprotected). That will also make other discovery services work. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org