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Printing problem after installing new firewall

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RandyRiegel

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Sep 29, 2003
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I just installed the new version of Firestarter firewall (1.0). When I installed it I had to redo all my settings such as allowing ports (22, 80, etc.). Now I can't print from my winxp machine to the printer the linux servers printer. The printer icon in my windows system tray just sits there like it can't get sent to the server, I'm thinking that port is blocked. I can print directly from the server fine. My printers are setup though samba and have have the samba ports unblocked and can use samba shares so I don't know why I can't use the printer. What port does printing use?
 
Clearly your printing traffic is not going to the ports you expect. Try logging dropped packets in your firewall config, or shutting the firewall down, printing and watching the traffic using tcpdump.
 
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