F10 Cups / Samba / Vista

Brian C. Huffman bhuffman at graze.net
Wed Jan 28 02:34:07 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote: 

> 
> 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%
> ?

[root at oveja cups]# grep cups /etc/samba/smb.conf
# Cups Options let you pass the cups libs custom options, setting it to 
raw
;       cups options = raw
        printcap name = cups
        printing = cups
[root at oveja cups]# smbclient -L localhost -U%
Domain=[HUFFMANS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.7-0.25.fc10]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Office BH Desktop)
        photosmart_7350 Printer   HP PhotoSmart 7350
        photosmart-7350 Printer   HP Photosmart 7350
Domain=[HUFFMANS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.7-0.25.fc10]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------






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