Re: Redhat 9 can't print to Win2000 shared printer via Cups/Samba?

"Dan Genn" <dangenn@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:45:12 +0000

The printer is directly connected to lpt1 on the W2K machine and shared as 
HP5N. On the Redhat 9 machine I am just trying to setup a smb print que via 
printconf to print to this Windows printer share. Samba on the Redhat box is 
only used to talk with the other Win boxes...not to share anything - it's a 
netbios client here. The applet (printconf or redhat-config-printer) tries 
to autodiscover the host/share (which is flaky)- sometimes it only sees the 
netbios name of the W2K host sometimes it lists both the host and the HP5N 
share. The hourglass keeps spinning. Even if I set the share up explicitly 
by setting all entries myself, (i.e. workgroup, host, share, id and passwd) 
the applet keeps coming back up with the settings window looking for more 
information. No probs printing through Windows hosts on my network, and 
connecting to netbios directory shares on the W2K box via Redhat 9. Hope 
that is clearer.

                     Dan

From: Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To: RedHat - Shrike <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Redhat 9 can't print to Win2000 shared printer via Cups/Samba?
Date: 24 Apr 2003 21:21:32 -0500

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 21:13, Dan Genn wrote:

> I am trying to setup an smb networked printer on my Redhat 9 machine. 
The

> printer is shared via a W2K machine (other Win clients have no probs

> printing through the share). I have tried to setup the print que through 
the

> printconf gui in X. The applet finds the host on the network via 
discovery

> but flakes on the share HP5 for example. Even if I explicitly set the 
share

> and host (via IP or netbios name) with the guest account I cannot print 
a

> test page. I can map directory shares no problem from the Redhat 9 box

> however. Has anyone experienced this prob with Cups/Samba and Redhat 9

> printing to a W2K shared printer?

I have my server and workstation setup to print to a shared printer to a
Win ME machine with no problems.  Are you printing directly to the
printer through W2K or did you setup the printer through the W2K
machine, and now trying to set it up for users to print through the
samba server, then to the W2K machine?

And what do you mean it flakes?  What steps are you performing and up to
what step does it finally crash?

--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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