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How to find a network printer. I tried to add a network printer, I got a message "FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs mdns services, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client firewall is enabled." How do I get a firewall activity, if it is not in operation

I'm Finnish, I do not understand other languages​​, so I wrote this Google translator, but try to understand my problems.

FirewallD is a RedHat / Fedora daemon. It ended up in a Debian / Ubuntu / Mint Gnome application by mistake.

Install the following package: EDIT: Just noticed that you are using Debian-based Mint. You will need to install another package as well: If you plan on using Samba for file sharing you might want to review the Debian section of the following HowTo for all the other things you need to do to get Debian working: Simple File Sharing in Mint: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 18#p315218

altair4 wrote:FirewallD is a RedHat / Fedora daemon. It ended up in a Debian / Ubuntu / Mint Gnome application by mistake.

Install the following package:

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sudo apt-get install system-config-printer

EDIT: Just noticed that you are using Debian-based Mint. You will need to install another package as well:

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sudo apt-get install python-smbc

If you plan on using Samba for file sharing you might want to review the Debian section of the following HowTo for all the other things you need to do to get Debian working: Simple File Sharing in Mint: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 18#p315218

None of these actions helped. The terminal said that both had already installed the latest version of

Open a terminal and run: If you are still getting a reference to FirewallD then you problem is something else.

altair4 wrote:Open a terminal and run:

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system-config-printer

If you are still getting a reference to FirewallD then you problem is something else.

now works, thank you
t:edgard