Printing from Gentoo to a shared Windows XP printer via Cups

hulk2nd · Last edited by hulk2nd on Mon Oct 27, 2003 1:40 am; edited 8 times in total

Ok,

for the first, hi at all!

In this thread i'm gonna try to explain, how to use a shared printer, that is connected to a Windows XP machine in your lan.
It isn't hard at all but it took me hours to get it working cause i couldn't find a good tutorial, that's why i decided to write this one.

I'll try to explain it with the help of what i've done here:

1. My computers:

a) My windows XP computer is called "jimbo", the ip is 192.168.0.3, the standard user is hulk ( pass xxxxxxx ) and the connected printer is an epson stylus c62.

- share the printer by right-clicking on it and give him a simple name, in my case "epsonc62".
- disable any firewalls ( you can configure it later but first we will make sure that printing will work at all ).

b) My Gentoo machine is a vaio notebook, called hulktop, the ip is 192.168.0.22

2. the requirements:

make sure that your xp machine is in your /etc/hosts. i couldnt get it working with the ip adress only.

in my case it is:

TheWart · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:15 pm Post subject:

Nice guide.

I am going to print this out, cause when I go home for vacation, I am going to have to do this.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

hulk2nd · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:39 am Post subject:

i hope it can help you. it would be nice to get at least one positive feedback so that i know everything works well ( i had to edit it several times already, cause i forgot somethin ).

greets,
hulk

RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

GOOD TIMING!!! :wink:

I needed this today. Great job. You might want to consider submiting this to the gentoo-docs team, and mabey others so it can be googled. It continues to amaze me that there are beter docs in the forums of a reletively unpopuler (in terms of users, I personaly love it) distro than on google!!! :twisted:

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a.zapatista · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 42

thank you thank you thank you thank you

hulk2nd · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject:

so, it seems to work

i'm glad i could have helped you.

greets,
hulk

thomasando · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 94

i can't get it working! i'm trying to print to a machine on the other side of a VPN at my parents house. the connection is up, i can browse samba shares etc from my machine, i can ping the systems on the other side, just cups doesn't want to talk... i have put the ip address and hostname of the system it's connected to in /etc/hosts and tried connecting using the hostname as well as the ip address and it doesnt like it.

my internal subnet is 192.168.0.x and the one at my parents house is 192.168.1.x - the vpn is ipsec, done via 2 smoothwall boxen. Has anyone got any ideas on how i might get this running?

edit: the system on the other side of the vpn with the printer attached is windows 2000. i'm trying to print from gentoo (of course!)

hulk2nd · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 2:24 pm Post subject:

this normally happens when you forget to enter username / pass in the string, wihile trying to connect to the printer.

Raniz · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject:

Works Great!

Darkon · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject:

Works for me ;)
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XeroByte · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

doesn't work for me... when I try to print the test page or something other it says: 'aborted'. Can't figure out why it doesn't work :/

EDIT: and when I click on 'Restart Job' it says: 'client-error-not-possible'

seems like there's something wrong with the XP-machine

MatzeOne · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:22 am Post subject:

the only windows i didn't removed of my pcs is windows millenium on my laptop... will it work with this guide? i'll try if you don't say no

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Eddy · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:33 am Post subject:

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:14 am Post subject:

have you guys disabled all your firewalls?

XeroByte · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

yeh, firewall is disabled...

Koybe · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Belgium

strange... works well with test page and i get blank page for anything else

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:24 am Post subject:

these problems are really strange. the problem is that i don't have any experience with these.

@xerobyte: maybe you typed the password / username wrong? i had the same problem when i forgot to enter it.

@Koybe: have you tried to use another .ppd file? maybe another driver would solve these problems.

XeroByte · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

no, they're correct (username and password)... reconfigured it several times tho to check if they weren't wrong... but is it normal that in printer overview only smb://workgroup/host/printer appears without the username und password in it?

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:36 am Post subject:

yes, thats normnal.
have you tried to ping the other computer so that you at least can be sure that it is not a connection problem?
if not try it with ping <ip> and with ping <host>

greets,
hulk

XeroByte · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

yes, ping works without any problems... looks somehow like the xp machine rejects any incoming printer jobs...

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:41 am Post subject:

hmm just for fun, try it with administrator as the username (and of course with the admin pass).
maybe it is a rights-problem.

XeroByte · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

doesn't work neither

Koybe · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Belgium

how maybe the problem is i have a canon s750 and found no ppd for it... so i'll try some of it.
Another question when i'll have it work how can i put the "cups start" at boot for not having to type it each time?

hulk2nd · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject:

Koybe · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Belgium

I should have guest but i'm noob :p sorry