Printing from Gentoo to a shared Windows XP printer via Cups

ugus · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

thank you!.
clear, short, very good guide.
working perfect.

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Bob P · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:

Belial` · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

Well, I think I've tried everything I could find on the net, but it just won't work :cry:

I have a HP DeskJet 3420, everything works fine (Printer is shared, and I can send jobs to it) but when the printer should start to print, he doesn't.
It just hangs at 64kb/3,70MB in the print queue, or whatever you call it...
So I this means, my Gentoo sends te file to the print queue, but Windows, or the printer can't do anything with it...
Is it just a non-linux-compatible printer or what? I really want this to work

Can somebody help??

Bob P · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:40 am Post subject:

it may not be intuitive, but i think you need to emerge this regardless of the model of your HP printer.

Belial` · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject:

I have installed hpijs, but it still doesn't work

thanks anyway...

GaDDiM · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 38

You don't need to emerge samba if you have Windows XP (don't know of other versions of windows but I assume 2000 has it also) nor doing difficult with users or guest accounts

You need to add a Windows Component under "OtherFile and Print sharing" called "Print services for Unix". This is actually just a ldp server.

If you are using a firewall (which is default with SP2) you need to open port 515 TCP.

Now add a printer just like the first post describe only with the Device URI

Anouar · n00b Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 12

Hi hulk,

I can't even get connection with the printer,
it says this:

sleek · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 71

Thanks! This works great with my HP DeskJet 880C. Been looking for a guide like this, so I'm extremely happy!
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linux_weenie · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 365

If you have an HP-DeskJet-720C, then you will also need to make sure you

deXtuX · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 11

Strangely enough, my Lexmark E220 (laser printer) wouldn't work with any of the Lexmark drivers I could find (they don't have one specifically for the E220, only the E210), so I finally chose the HP LaserJet driver though the KDE control planel just for the hell of it, and its been working perfectly ever since.

saan · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: Works!

I had similar problems with people from previous posts. After monkeying around for about an hour, I got mine working by obtaining driver(.ppd file) from www.linuxprinting.org. Emerging "gimp-print" gave me awful print result on my old Epson Stylus Color 740. Oh yeah, I skip part 2 on this how-to regarding inputing local ip address into "/etc/hosts" and it still works. Also I had to used regular user with password when configuring "smb://xxx..."

Thanks for this Tips & Tricks!

Seather · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject:

When trying to add a printer in the web admin utility, Windows Printer via SAMBA is not listed in my Device: list. I have cups and samba both in my use flags?

Edit: fixed, recompiled both and started samba before cups seemed to fix that problem

Seather · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:51 am Post subject:

I have the following problem,

When trying to print out a test page in the cups utility, I get the following error message in cups' log files:

AdamG · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 46 Location: USA, MA

Thanks..Worked Like a charm

KFM · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 58

how do I tell what my hostname and workgroup name are on a windows box?

NateZ · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 9 Location: not found.

wow, thank you so much - i've been wanting to do this for so long!

_Master_ · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

thnx a bunch man

works great with my HP Psc 2410
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cerealito · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Toulouse, Fr

Your guide Works great with my HPLaserJet1100!
thank you very much!

shanenin · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject:

When I go to print a test page, it starts the process(I can hear the printer move), then it just stops. According to windows XP the page is being printed, but never finished.
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YuriyRusinov · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

hulk2nd, thank you very much. I many many days unsuccessfully configured printing on Windows machines via cups before I have found this topic. Your guide is works great.
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shanenin · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:

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thomasa88 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

Weee

I have tried with foomatic and kde setup (the cups admin page wouldnt find my printer model) and that worked ok when the printer was connected locally, but when it runs through a win2k I have to use ghostscript,

thx for telling me how

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blackcell · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 56 Location: Oregon

Worked great for me on first try.
I used

Garth · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Michigan

Thanks for the HOW-TO. Works fine now.

I tried to connect to a Windows98 connected printer and found that the smb string had to simply be: