I've seen a lot on printing from Win boxes to printers on Linux boxes. I've found very little on printing from Linux to Windows printers. The HOWTO has some information and I've found several other sources, but I still can't get my Linux box to print to a Windows 2000 printer. I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, Samba 2.2.3a, CUPS (I'm not sure of the version, I think it's ), which I'm managing through the KDE control panel. I have an Epson C60 on a Windows 2000 box that I need to be able to access from Linux. I'm doing this on my home office lan, but I need to do the exact same thing (with a different printer) on a friend's lan. I used the CUPs control panel and told it to scan the network. It found the Win2k box that's the host for the printer, but not the printer. I tried typing in the info manually, but nothing prints. I used the CUPS web admin tool and found I kept getting the error message: "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry again in 60 seconds....'Success" That is the only message I get. I'm testing everything on my own LAN, since I figure once I get it to work on my LAN, it'll work okay on my friend's. I know I'm asking for free help, but I need to get my friend's computer printing to his Win2k box asap, so any help I can get on this soon is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Hal
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 23 Octobre 2002 18:44, Hal Vaughan a ?crit :> I've seen a lot on printing from Win boxes to printers on Linux boxes. > I've found very little on printing from Linux to Windows printers. The > HOWTO has some information and I've found several other sources, but I > still can't get my Linux box to print to a Windows 2000 printer. > > I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, Samba 2.2.3a, CUPS (I'm not sure of the > version, I think it's ), which I'm managing through the KDE control panel. > I have an Epson C60 on a Windows 2000 box that I need to be able to access > from Linux. I'm doing this on my home office lan, but I need to do the > exact same thing (with a different printer) on a friend's lan. > > I used the CUPs control panel and told it to scan the network. It found > the Win2k box that's the host for the printer, but not the printer. I > tried typing in the info manually, but nothing prints. I used the CUPS web > admin tool and found I kept getting the error message: > > "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry again in 60 > seconds....'Success" > > That is the only message I get. > > I'm testing everything on my own LAN, since I figure once I get it to work > on my LAN, it'll work okay on my friend's. > > I know I'm asking for free help, but I need to get my friend's computer > printing to his Win2k box asap, so any help I can get on this soon is > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > HalThis should work... 1- did your friend share his printer on his win2k box? 2- try a newer version of samba, e.g. 2.2.6 (get it here: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~staburet/freshsamba ) Cheers - -- Sylvestre Taburet - 1024D/030E1B7E sylvestre.taburet@free.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ttPQBot2zwMOG34RAtu/AJ4mWB5XMbdpJGFBf/DS97Kh8kCNlwCbBRU5 K/sQ/e8/a987rNm+cGn4n1A=kuuT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I had a similiar problem like that. What I did was enable the guest account on the windows machine and made the printer shared by everyone. Hal Vaughan wrote:> I've seen a lot on printing from Win boxes to printers on Linux boxes. I've > found very little on printing from Linux to Windows printers. The HOWTO has > some information and I've found several other sources, but I still can't get > my Linux box to print to a Windows 2000 printer. > > I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, Samba 2.2.3a, CUPS (I'm not sure of the version, > I think it's ), which I'm managing through the KDE control panel. I have an > Epson C60 on a Windows 2000 box that I need to be able to access from Linux. > I'm doing this on my home office lan, but I need to do the exact same thing > (with a different printer) on a friend's lan. > > I used the CUPs control panel and told it to scan the network. It found the > Win2k box that's the host for the printer, but not the printer. I tried > typing in the info manually, but nothing prints. I used the CUPS web admin > tool and found I kept getting the error message: > > "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry again in 60 seconds....'Success" > > That is the only message I get. > > I'm testing everything on my own LAN, since I figure once I get it to work on > my LAN, it'll work okay on my friend's. > > I know I'm asking for free help, but I need to get my friend's computer > printing to his Win2k box asap, so any help I can get on this soon is greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Hal > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org