[Wine] Re: Printing Setup

dsmithnc wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri Dec 18 14:24:17 CST 2009


Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:41 -0600, dsmithnc wrote:
> Is your print server (CUPS server) set to publish its shared printers
> and allow printing from the internet? On earlier Fedora releases these
> were on by default but now they are off by default. Enabling them is
> safe if you have the firewall enabled and/or you are using an ADSL
> router with NAT capability, which most have.
> 
> WINE connects to the printer using a socket and the IPP protocol, so
> those options must be on for WINE to print. Many native apps print by
> piping the output through the lpr utility, which is why they work but
> WINE won't unless you change the cups server settings.  
> 
> 
> Martin


Good Question, Martin.  I don't have any idea.  I see if I can find out.

Thanks,
Dick







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