I'm sitting here tonight trying to get WinXP to map a printer on a Samba share. First off, one thing I find disturbing is that XP seems to be aware of Samba servers. When I open a window to one, it says on the window bar "Samba 2.0.7 (nameofserver)" *shudder*. Anywho. I'm trying to map to a printer, and it seems to take forever and a week to come up. I've managed to map our HP4550N and our Canon iR600 (tho it always says it's "paused"), but our HP8150DN is just being a PITA. I've sat here for over 20 minutes waiting for this open up, and I get nothing. I've tried this 3 times now (three separate reboots, three separate cleaning-out-of-registry-entries-pointing-to-that printer, three freezes for 20 minutes) with no luck. Anyone have any ideas here? I really want to go home tonight :( Thanks! Glenn --- Glenn E. Sieb, System Administrator Lumeta Corp. mailto:ges@lumeta.com +1 732 357-3514 (V) +1 732 564-0731 (Fax)
Glenn Sieb wrote:> I'm sitting here tonight trying to get WinXP to map a printer on a > Samba share. > > First off, one thing I find disturbing is that XP seems to be aware of > Samba servers. When I open a window to one, it says on the window bar > "Samba 2.0.7 (nameofserver)" *shudder*.XP shows the comment of the server followed by name of server in brackets. Change the comment in your smb.conf if you dont want it to show Samba 2.0.7 first.> I'm trying to map to a printer, and it seems to take forever and a > week to come up. I've managed to map our HP4550N and our Canon iR600 > (tho it always says it's "paused"), but our HP8150DN is just being a > PITA. I've sat here for over 20 minutes waiting for this open up, and > I get nothing. I've tried this 3 times now (three separate reboots, > three separate cleaning-out-of-registry-entries-pointing-to-that > printer, three freezes for 20 minutes) with no luck.Upgrade to 2.2.2 or 2.2.3a Many XP related things have been fixed in these two releases. /James -- Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. Douglas Adams