Printing from Gentoo to a shared Windows XP printer via Cups

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hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:03 pm

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:

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192.168.0.3     jimbo.spengnet.lan         jimbo

optionally you can add "cups" to your USE-Flags, but this is not necessary.

the programs we need:

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emerge samba
emerge cups
emerge psutils
emerge ghostscript
emerge gnome-print (optional)

it seems that you need the "HP Inkjet server for Ghostscript", if you have a Hewlett Packard printer.

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emerge hpijs

now you need a driver for your printer. you can either go to www.linuxprinting.org to get the .ppd file for your printer ( in my case Epson-Stylus_C62-gimp-print-ijs.ppd ), or you can

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USE="ppds" emerge gimp-print

to get all available gimp-print drivers.
else just do

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emerge gimp-print

if you choosed just to download the file from linuxprinting.org, then you have to copy it over to

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/usr/share/cups/model/

( strangefully i experienced, that the downloaded driver for my printer from linuxprinting.org prints faster than the driver from the gimp-print package. even with the same settings ... )

3. the installation

now we start cups:

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/etc/init.d/cupsd start

open your favourite browser and go to http://localhost:631/
go to "manage printers". if you're asked for a password type in your normal root account infos. the first three informations (name, location, description) can be filled just like you want. i choosed to name it epsonc62 but i don't think it is needfull that this name is the same one that you gave your printer on the xp machine. click continue. choose "Windows Printer via SAMBA". click continue.
then tipe in the location:

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smb://username:pass@workgroup/host/printer

in my case this is

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smb://hulk:xxxxxxx@msheimnetz/jimbo/epsonc62

maybe it is working with the normal guest account so i suggest you'll try this first before using your normal login.

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smb://guest:@workgroup/host/printer

click continue.
choose the vendor of your printer ( in my case epson ), continue
choose your printer model eg the driver you installed earlier, continue

if I didn't forget something and everything went well, you should now be able to print the test page.

the last thing is to add cups to runlevel default so that the printer works everytime you reboot.

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rc-update add cupsd default

comments, critics and feedbacks in any case are very welcome

greets,
hulk

TheWart · Post by **TheWart** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:15 pm

Nice guide.

I am going to print this out, cause when I go home for vacation, I am going to have to do this.

hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:39 am

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 · Post by **RedBeard0531** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:29 pm

GOOD TIMING!!!

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!!!

a.zapatista · Post by **a.zapatista** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:52 pm

thank you thank you thank you thank you

hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:22 pm

so, it seems to work

i'm glad i could have helped you.

greets,
hulk

thomasando · Post by **thomasando** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 12:23 pm

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 · Post by **hulk2nd** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 2:24 pm

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

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smb://username:pass@workgroup/host/printer

Raniz · Post by **Raniz** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:24 pm

Works Great!

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:05 pm

Works for me ;)

XeroByte · Post by **XeroByte** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:29 pm

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 · Post by **MatzeOne** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:22 am

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

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:33 am

XeroByte wrote: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

I have the same problem

hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:14 am

have you guys disabled all your firewalls?

XeroByte · Post by **XeroByte** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:00 am

yeh, firewall is disabled...

Koybe · Post by **Koybe** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:00 am

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

hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:24 am

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 · Post by **XeroByte** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:30 am

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 · Post by **hulk2nd** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:36 am

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 · Post by **XeroByte** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:39 am

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

hulk2nd · Post by **hulk2nd** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:41 am

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 · Post by **XeroByte** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:50 am

doesn't work neither

Koybe · Post by **Koybe** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:52 am

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 · Post by **hulk2nd** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:17 pm

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rc-update add cupsd default

Koybe · Post by **Koybe** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:41 pm

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