Hello all! I'm russian, so sorry for my english... :) I have LAN. LAN consist of one Winxp with shared printer (no password, common access), and one linux slackware 9.1. I need print from linux to shared printer of winxp. Printer of winxp connected by USB. I can't print! I was do it on other machines, where printer was connected by LPT1, and no problem, printer was printing :) May be is something tricks and traps with port printer usb? -- Sat Mar 20 12:29:23 UTC 2004
Pusher schrieb:> Hello all! > > I'm russian, so sorry for my english... :) > I have LAN. LAN consist of one Winxp with shared printer (no password, common access), and one linux slackware 9.1. I need print from linux to shared printer of winxp. > Printer of winxp connected by USB. > I can't print! > > I was do it on other machines, where printer was connected by LPT1, and no problem, printer was printing :) > > May be is something tricks and traps with port printer usb? >Hi this sounds not a primary samba related problem, if you using cups check the log files of cups in the first case Regards
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 05:44, Pusher wrote:> Hello all! > > I'm russian, so sorry for my english... :) > I have LAN. LAN consist of one Winxp with shared printer (no password, common access), and one linux slackware 9.1. I need print from linux to shared printer of winxp. > Printer of winxp connected by USB. > I can't print! > > I was do it on other machines, where printer was connected by LPT1, and no problem, printer was printing :) > > May be is something tricks and traps with port printer usb? >---- No - the USB connection is managed by the computer that it is connected to. In this case, the Windows XP computer. You must share the printer from Windows XP Setup Cups printing to use the smb://NETBIOS_NAME_OF_WINDOWS_XP/PRINT_SHARE and restart cups Craig
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:07:04 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:> > You must share the printer from Windows XPof course, i did it already.> > Setup Cups printing to use the > smb://NETBIOS_NAME_OF_WINDOWS_XP/PRINT_SHARE > > and restart cupsCups better then LPR? -- Sat Mar 20 20:33:53 UTC 2004