Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, 2008-10-27 at 10:23 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:

> > Printing to a printer needs opening ports? :-?
>
> No, it does not.

Ok.


> > I thought we needed opening the port only if other computers wanted to
> > print to "my" cups.
>
> You need to open TCP port 631 to be able to accept printing jobs from remote
> hosts.
>
> You need to open UDP port 631 to accept IPP broadcasts announcing presence of
> printing servers and their queues. This is a comfortable way to have all
> available network queues available when roaming between multiple networks,
> but it is not necessary in order to print to a remote host at all.

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the clarification.


> > 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?
> >
> >
> > I couldn't finish configure the printer, yast only works in ncurses mode
> > (known bug) and I couldn't figure out what was happening. It could be
> > because of closed port, dunno.
>
> Please, file a bugreport about this and attach the logs.

About yast only working in ncurses mode? That's Bug 439074.

And unless yast works in graphical mode, I'm not testing the add printer 
again. Too confusing.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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