[Wine] printer doesn't work under wine

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Thu Oct 13 21:37:19 CDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 20:28 -0500, dimesio wrote:
> I know you've said this before, and I'm sure you had to do that for
> your system, but it is by no means necessary for all setups.
>
Maybe we should make a list of which distros this applies to.

Fedora defaults to IPP protocol off.

IIRC you use SUSE, which obviously has IPP enabled out of the box or
Wine couldn't use it.

What about the rest?

>  Printing from Wine has always worked just fine out-of-the box for me,
> and CUPS is NOT set to either publish shared printers or allow
> printing from the internet. IMO, this is the case for most users, or
> we would see far more questions here about printing than we do.
> 
Quick test: if you scan your system with nmap does it show port 631 as
open?

Martin





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