F10 Cups / Samba / Vista

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jan 28 00:09:32 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:13 -0500, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> All,
> 
> For the life of me I can't get Windows Vista to connect to my HP 
> Photosmart printer and print through samba and cups anymore.
> 
> It worked in F9.  I upgraded to 10 and no joy.
> 
> I've tried adding it via hplip and I was able to do that and print a 
> successful test page from the linux server itself.  Authentication 
> through samba is working b/c I can connect to my home directory with no 
> problems.  But when I try to connect to the printer it says "Windows 
> cannot connect to printer."
> 
> I see nothing in either /var/log/smbd.log or my machine.log or in 
> /var/log/cups/error.log
> 
> Is there an example out there on how to do this?  FAQ?  Something?  So 
> far google has turned up nothing for me.
> 
> Frustrated, but thanks in advance,
----
frustrated because you don't know where to look.

what is output of this command...
grep cups /etc/samba/smb.conf
?

what is output of this command...
smbclient -L localhost -U%
?

I'm trying to make certain cups is configured in Samba and printer shows
up as an available resource.

Craig




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