Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 20 June 2008 00:46:51 Bassel Safadi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Zoltan Szabo <szzoli at elte.hu> wrote:
> > There is a guide for installing LBP printers to Linux on the canon
> > website:
> > "http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028622.asp?model=", you may
> > give it a try.
>
> I did exactly what the wrote in the guide, and still having the same
> problem
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > There's your clue.  You didn't say where this printer is, or how it's
> > connected.  It appears to be expecting you to have authenticated somehow
> > - either because it is networked, or because it is attached to another
> > computer.
> >
> > Anne
>
> the printer is attached to the same computer, and shared via samba, is it
> possible that samba causing the problem?

Possible, I suppose, but I doubt it, unless you have something unusual in your 
smb.conf.

Bruce mentioned a gentoo guide.  In my experience gentoo documentation is 
usually very good, so it's definitely worth looking at.

Anne