Maybe you need to install Samba?
On March 9, 2021 02:06:16 J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:
In setting up a Linux Mint 20.1 machine for my wife, we have a problem that
the wired
networking does not find (name).local machines. I've played with avahi and
some other
things, but so far no joy ---- EXCEPT things work when I attach a wifi USB
dongle. Sigh.
And we thought we'd resolved enough things -- not really needing the .local
machines -- that
we could remove the dongle. But then the networked printer did not work either.
Alex Pilon has suggested that maybe there are some firewall settings in the
(wired) networking.
However, I'm fairly ignorant of that sort of thing.
Suggestions for diagnostics or things to try welcome. We'd rather not run
the extra wifi if
it isn't necessary. As an old one, it runs fairly hot.
Re: printer. I tried 'sudo system-config-printer'. Got a different URI
from searching, but
no joy on printing. Says printer not connected.
Similarly, took URI (different again) from my desktop (wired) machine. Same
"not-connected"
result.
Cheers, JN
On 2021-03-07 10:06 a.m., CL Junk wrote:
Resolved. Not sure why, but when I logged in using the administrator
account, it set up the printer properly. Sudo
access using my non-administrator account had the issue.
Carolyn
On 2021-03-05 10:20 a.m., CL Junk wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having an issue with a new install of Mint Linux 20.1. It detected my
printer just fine, but when I try to
change the printer options - 2-sided printing on (portrait) - and click
apply, I get an authentication request. This
did not happen on my previous system, it worked perfectly out of the box.
The printer is working, prints fine.
I am attaching a screenshot of the dialog box.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Carolyn
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