On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:51 -0500, Bill Johnson wrote: > Greetings. I recently upgraded from FC5 to FC6, and now my cups > printing is broken. > > I print to an HP841C printer that is attached to a Windows PC. Under > FC5, I was connecting to this via smb. > > When I attempt to print a test page to the printer (which still > appears to be accessible via the cups web interface), I see an error > referencing /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb. I googled this and the only > thing I can find is a requirement to have a symbolic link set up. It > is there. > > Has anybody had any problems getting cups to print to a Windows > printer via smb since upgrading from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6? > If so, how did you fix it? > > I'll gladly provide any logs that may help in diagnosing this issue. > I just don't know what to provide at this point. > > Thanks! > Bill > -- A number of folks have reported problems configuring early model HP printers. I "think" there are some missing ppd issues. ( I'm not using fc6) - but have solved the problem ( with different distros ) by going to:http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/combined.html ----------gary
