RE: GUI Firewall configuration tools WAS HP LaserJet trouble…

> >     From: Trent Shipley <tshipley@deru.com 
> <mailto:tshipley@deru.com>>
> >     > I have an HP LaserJet.

> >     Model#?  They only made about 300 different models of 
> those things.
> >     It's probably not important here, but may be later.

> >     > The three Macs find it and print to it, when I boot 
> my Mac into
> >     > windows it prints fine. Unfortunately the Ubuntu 
> 9.04.x box can't
> >     > find it.  If I bring up the browser based manager for 
> CUPS, I can't
> >     > find anything.  I give it the IP address for the 
> [printer], still
> >     > nothing.  I try the HP Linux printer utility and have no luck.

> >     In Gentoo, if I didn't have the snmp USE flag defined, the hplip
> >     utilities couldn't see or print to any networked HP 
> printers.  This
> >     shouldn't be a problem under Debian-derived things 
> though. Also, make
> >     sure there aren't any overly-restrictive firewall rules 
> in place like
> >     a default DROP without a corresponding ACCEPT for 
> whatever port this
> >     is using.  That'd cause the problems you describe.

> >     > What I'd like is a systematic diagnostic plan to start
> >     > troubleshooting

> >     Make sure you can ping the printer from the Ubuntu box 
> first.  Then
> >     see if you can "telnet $PRINTER_IP 631" and get a connection (if
> >     this thing does IPP), or use whatever port the thing uses.

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