M9. wrote: > I must say that the network, firewall and networkprinting, whether it > is cups or samba shared printing, is an absolute mess.. :-(
I don't exactly recognise the situation. I don't use the openSUSE firewall, so I can't say much about that, but the rest works just fine here. We have about 20 servers, plus a large(ish) cluster and 1 Windows workstation. > It is impossible to find a printer over the network, even if specified > the exact adress, or as i noticed yesterday, the shares are not > consistent: it is impossible to add new shares, and old ones suddenly > 'do not exist'.... > > (I am realy interrested in the cause of this: Overdone security, or > incompatible logonsytems?) Cups has never caused any such problems for me - the one challenge I had was getting printing from Windows to work too, and even that was quickly dealt with. > It is realy frustrating, that if things are ok, and than with no > change from one moment to another, stop working.. Definitely. I just doubt if that is the case, to be perfectly honest. > The way I see it, a pc or laptop with suse installed on it, should be > pluggable into any network, able to find the shares, browse them, > share files which can be browsed, and above all: is able to find the > available printers in the network. Yep, that sounds about right. Depending on how open things are, you might need to adjust authentication here or there. > Just few steps to go..... If you were expecting help from the list without describing your problems and without any kind of diagnostics, I think you're going to be disappointed. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- ENIDAN Technologies GmbH - managed email-security. Is _your_ business under attack? http://www.spamchek.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
