[Wine] Printing Setup

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Fri Dec 18 18:36:38 CST 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:24 -0600, dsmithnc wrote:
> 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.
> 
On Fedora (another Gnome distro) its in the System|Administration|
Printers applet.


Martin





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