Printing from Gentoo to a shared Windows XP printer via Cups

lambo · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 11

Just want to say thanks, I spent several days trying to print to my XP box, trying to follow the instructions on other posts. I'm surprised Samba is still working with all of the changes I made. Following your instructions I was able to get this up in 10 minutes.

kpitty · n00b Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 9

Thanks for your guide. It was just what I needed.

Propagandhi · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 27

Good guide. Just what i needed after several painful hours of trying to get the printer work on gentoo and share the printer to windows.
Easier this way, works like a charm. (and besides, my missus with her win-comp mostly uses the printer anyways)

Shrekkie · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 64 Location: Belgium

Hulk !!!

Thnx alot man ! I had a problem, but your tip , adding user and pass to the URI did it ...

Gentoo Forums pWn them all !!!!
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thechosen0ne · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 36

This was exactly what I needed!!!

I could NOT get the IP address to work. I hadn't even thought of adding an entry to the /etc/hosts file. This stopped my "Unable to connect to SAMBA host" problems. This seems like maybe it's a problem with samba or cups as I would think it should work using ip's and not rely on name resolution...

Thanks!

[EDIT]

Nooo! I'm so close... Windows says it's printing and the printer sounds like it's getting ready to print but the little light on the printer just blinks...

http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/samsung-list/2002q4/000378.html
this looks like it's close to the problem I'm having, but with RH... not Gentoo... any ideas? BTW I am using an HP PSC 1210

http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/hp-list/2003q4/004324.html
This is another good description of my problem, same printer, mandrake

[EDIT]

OMG OMG OMG I can't believe it works...

The solution is insanely simple. Go into your printer properties in Windows. Under the Ports tab, disable Bidirectional Support. Apparantely the printer is waiting for some sort of confirmation before starting to print.

I have never been so happy to see a printer test page in all my life.

Let me know if this helps anyone else.

smukec · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 59 Location: Slovenia

I bumped into a samba problem solving printing.

It seems I'm having problems with samba in first place.
In the network there are 5 PCs(3xWin + 2xgentoo). I can't any share info from the Win boxes(XP and 2k). And one of those win boxes is sharing the printer (because it is a HP PSC and they want to scan in windows) - previously we run the printer on a gentoo box with no problems.
From the 'smbclient PRNBOX' I can see that it tries to access IP:139 which is (apparently) not listening on any of those win machines. I suppose the problem is on the win side.
Whan would you propose, how to proceed now.

flashingcurser · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 34

Ya, me too.

ERROR:

client-error-not-possible

Any new thoughts on this problem?

fop · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 24

Same error as flashingcurser and a bunch of other people...

EDIT:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=133668
This post helped me. However, since the Windows machine with the printer uses DHCP, the IP changes every once in a while. I have to change the IP in /etc/hosts accordingly. Is there a way around this?

ender.wiggin · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 2

hi, cool guide

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tecknojunky · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

When I arrive to where you specify the URI, there is no WINDOWS SHARE printer listed.

EDIT: I mistakenly thought that the samba server was unneeded for cups to use a windows shared printer. :oops:

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brain salad surgery · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 216

i tried from gentoo to a windows XP pro printer share:

won't work using guest account
won't work using administrator account

gotta use a normal account + passwd
as mentionned

brain salad surgery · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 216

i tried from gentoo to a windows XP pro printer share:

won't work using guest account
won't work using administrator account

gotta use a normal account + passwd
as mentionned

meulie · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

brasuca · n00b Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 22

i'm trying to use a hppsc700 connected to a xp box, trying to use it with samba. I configure it, but when I try to print a test page, it used to say "host not found". Now it says connection refused.

fuhreal · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Toronto

THANK YOU !!! Worked like a charm !!

Only had to use the computers name as the IP wouldn't work for some reason.. oh well, i don't change my coputers names so i need not worry. Just hope i can remember this in case i have to print while on-site

m9dhatter · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 37 Location: philippines

i managed to get the shared printer working. i have a lexmark optra t612. my problem is that the printer seems to squeeze two pages in a single sheet although everything in the config shows up as normal and intended ( single sheet, landsacape view ). even the test page shows up in only one side. how do i resolve this?

L.U. · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject:

Just another thank you post. Spent over a day trying to get my particular printing set-up working before I found this post. Once I did find it, I was done in 20 minutes.

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makzu · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 42

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

Stormy · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 20

Hi, I've been dealing with this for hours now, after working hard with smbclient to finally be able to mount the printer and put a text file there (it prints) to finally being about to actually mount the printer to a directory (/printer) i can't seem to get cups to grab on and print and I think I know why, the problem lays in the fact that we use a domain and that the printer is shared useing a local user/pass (we tryed domain/pass still same problem) i was able to get the previous two connects to the printer useing "austin\printer:printer" to connect to the bad boy, were talking standard laser printer supporting PCL 6 here, i've tryed to go into the cups web interface and tell it smb://austin\printer:printer@austin/Laser and it sits there and looks at me with a NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED so i'm sure that this is comming from the fact that it's trying to ask about printer in the domain or whereever it is, in our smb.conf file we have specified that the workgroup='ed the domain, now we've tryed different logins on the cups side, and going as far as useing the local and the domain administrator user/password with still problems, my last guess is going to try and be useing the command line to do this and see if it comes up. If anyone else has seen this and found a good work around please let me know.

Update: I installed it off the command line and it worked fine!
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olias2 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 234 Location: CANADA

Thanks for this guide. It worked great for me with the guest:@ and no password. I only had to emerge the following...

bungernut · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173

I believe that i have the Linux Side setup correctly, when i have the print manager in windows open and then sent the test page as a job i see it come up, spool then disapear without printing. The windows computer prints its jobs just fine. I am using a guest account without a password. Has anyone seen this before?
EDIT (SOLVED)
need to emerge pnm2ppa and configure /etc/pnm2ppa.conf correctly, that it. Found it in another forum but lost the link
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matttions · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 338

hi to every.body .. really cool guide ..
I can print from any application [more o less] but what about the character? I can't print it out with Ximian-office 1.1.2 ..
Did you have my same problem?
[Driver of the printer [HP 5051]--> hpijs.
win2000 the printer server
my gentoo-box the client ...]
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kaidon · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 72

Nice guide, thanks alot.

A few tips for the paranoid Windows users (like me) who have locked down their boxes.

You'll have to enable/check the following settings:

Network device properties:
Client for Microsoft-Networks
File- and printer sharing for Microsoft-Networks
Internetprotocols (TCP/IP) > Properties > Extended > WINS > Activate Netbios over TCP/IP

Windows Services:
"Server" service must be running

I needed all the above to even be able to activate printer sharing.

Firewall configuration: (I'm using Sygate personal firewall)
allow connections:
host: <your linux ip here>
direction: both (in/out)
protocol: tcp
remote ports (linux): 1024-65535
local ports (windows): 445

[edit]
To configure cupsd to only listen on localhost open /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and change the following:
#Port 631 <-- default, comment this out
# 20040926/sa: listen only on localhost
Listen 127.0.0.1:631
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[edit 2]
You can login to http://localhost:631/admin with any user that is in the group "lp". Like this you don't have to (ab)use your root account for that.
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hth someone
cheers & thanks again
k

Neonamu · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

Thx for the guide. I'm trying to do all u say and it works perfectly.

Very good guide.