HP accessible from WindowsXP [SOLVED] -- Still solved but ...

[Kam Leo]

On 9/9/06, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Jack;
>
> On Thu, 2006-07-09 at 23:59 -0400, Jack Gates wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 September 2006 22:30, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi All;
>
> > > My printer was named "psc-1310-series---1" -- 19 characters in all.
> > >  It wasn't the name I originally gave it.  The name appeared
> > > several months ago after I had been experimenting with 'something'.
> > >  Probably supplied by kudzu or Anaconda or something else.  It
> > > worked, so I left it.  In any case, it is not a name I would
> > > choose.  So something in Fedora hasn't read the Samba or Cups
> > > manual.
> > >
> > > It could have been a combination of things, but as soon as I
> > > renamed my printer HP-psc-1315 (11 characters), WindowsXP could
> > > find my printer.
> >
> It wasn't the renaming that did it.  The best I can figure is that I had
> a test page from an earlier test stuck in the printer memory and when I
> did something? to unblock the memory the printer printed a page I
> thought was from upstairs.  I now do have the printer working from
> WindowsXP to Linux  -- for sure, and it wasn't the length of the name. I
> stopped trying to get it to print using the CUPS driver, loaded the
> windows HP driver on the upstairs computer and "Bob's your uncle".
>
> But I did uncover something else that is weird, may be a bug and helped
> mix everything up.  The help manual for the GNOME Printer Manager says I
> can change the name of the queue.  Which I kept doing -- from
> "psc-1310-series---1" to "HP-psc-1315" and variations thereof.  As long
> as I left FC5 running without logging out, the upstairs WindowsXP
> computer could find the new name I had used.
>
> When I logged out and then back in, an additional printer was showing
> under the name "psc-1310-series---1" with a different configuration from
> the "HP-psc-1315" which had only been a name change.
>
> The "psc-1310-series---1" Queue type: Locally-connected had become
> hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_3f11_CN45PB613FO2_if1_printer_CN45PB613FO2 Custom rather than hp/usb/psc_1310_series_?serial=CN45PB613FO2.  If I pushed rescan the hal line disappeared and the hp/usb/etc. line was left.  Even if deleted the "psc-1310-series---1" again, it showed up as the default printer in some of my applications.  All of these changes were duplicated in the http://localhost:631/ file
>
> Loggout and in again and "psc-1310-series---1" was back.  In fact, it
> gets even more confusing to me -- but that is the gist of it.
>
> What's going on?
>
> [snip]

Turn off cups-config-deamon service and see if that helps.