[ale] finding printer connected to wireless router

[Jim Philips]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM,  <ale-request at ale.org> wrote:



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> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:31 -0500
> From: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] finding printer connected to wireless router
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
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> Did you try to set it up as a windows shared printer?
>
> -derek

Yes. It is set up to be a shared printer under Windows. But this is a
dual-boot machine. When Linux is running, Windows isn't. Does that
make a difference?

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> On Tue, December 20, 2011 11:09 am, Jim Philips wrote:
>> I just bought a Belkin N600 wireless router. It allows you to connect
>> your printer to the router via USB cable. I can print to this printer
>> in Windows. But in Linux, I have one problem after another. This is in
>> Linux Mint 12. If I try CUPS, it never sees a printer at the IP
>> address of the router. If I create the printer anyway and use the IP
>> address, plus port, like so: 192.168.2.1:9100. The printer appears to
>> get installed. But if I try to print anything, CUPS just says "the
>> printer is busy". If I try using the standard printer setup tools in
>> Gnome, I'm immediately greeted by this message:
>>
>> "FirewallD is not running..."
>>
>> And a notice about needing mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client
>> enabled on the firewall. Extensive googling hasn't found anybody who
>> got past this issue. I don't even know if it's  *the* issue preventing
>> my printer from being seen on the network. But all available tools
>> fail to show anything connected to the router. I don't know where to
>> turn. Please let me know if fellow ALErs have figures this out before.
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