RedHat9 unable to print on W2k share.

[Alexander Dalloz]

> Hy guys!
> 
> I am about to loose my sanity. I have a notebook, which I 
> carry between work and home. At home I have a W2k Workstation 
> which shares a HP840c printer. This one works like a charme. 
> No porblems.
> 
> At work however, I have a W2k machine sharing a Brother 
> HL1030. I have no chance of printing on this printer. All the 
> other workstations (W2k) are able to print on it. I double 

The Brother 1030 is just a Windows GDI printer! No chance to print with
anything else than Windows as the Windows driver has to generate the pages.

> checked share settings, username, passwords... you name it.
> 
> I can connect to the printer via smbclient manually by doing:
> 
> smbclient //192.168.21.103/hl1030 -P -U klaus
> 
> But when I try to configure the printer with the gnome gui 
> thing, I always get the error: unable to connect to samba 
> host, retryin in 60 seconds...
> 
> I did set the logging of cups to debug, and attached the 
> /var/log/cups/error_log as a gzipped file to this eMail.
> 
> I hope somebody has some ideas.....
> 
> Thanks  in advance,
> Klaus

Alexander


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