-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2008-10-27 at 10:27 +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
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.
Printer was not discovered. I had to enter the address, and press "test" - which did nothing, no report of either working or not working. This was yast in ncurses mode. Then it did not suggest the correct model, it gave the entire list in alphabetical order of all printers of all makers. Here I abandoned, till YaST in graphical mode works.
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.
I saw no warning. And... I don't trust the firewall in my router that much to switch to "internal". I prefer external and open exactly what is needed and from the exact IPs needed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkFjOIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WkMQCgkxD1yFpu4KGn4Qn5zx4gIyoZ C8YAn2zc1LeUETUlrlCfmgyvtz5bE+Lq =39C2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org