SAMBA PDC was GUI Firewall configuration tools

>>>     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.

>>>     --
>>>     Matt G / Dances With Crows
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>> for us to 
>>> see

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