From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: When printer sharing is enabled in system-config-printer it adds the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT However to actually print to a shared printer, tcp port 631 also needs to be opened. Should system-config-printer be opening the tcp port as well as the udp port? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. default install of FC3-test3 2. setup a local printer 3. share this printer 4. attempt to print from another system Actual Results: Only port udp:631 was opened in /etc/sysconfig/iptables Expected Results: Port tcp:631 should be opened in /etc/sysconfig/iptables Additional info:
The system-config-printer tool does not alter iptables.
Does not the related rule for tcp:631 not just work - it's browsing that we can't use related with?
By "related rule", I assume you mean: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT This related rule works on the printer client system which makes an outgoing connection to tcp:631 on the print server. However the printer server system needs tcp:631 opened. In a typical home or small office, the "print server" is just the workstation that happens to have the printer connected. Ideally a rule to allow tcp:631 would be added when printer sharing is enabled in s-c-printer. At least, CUPS should be included in the list of "Trusted services" in s-c-securitylevel. As for browsing, yes that requires the udp:631 rule on the client: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
Screen freeze meant a better trusted service ui didn't make FC3, it's high on my list when we unfreeze. You can add tcp:631 through the gui currently for the print server as an additional port, this should mean that clients should work out of the box - server slight manual config. Better UI for selection will follow. Closing as duplicate of generic improvement bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124161 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.