Looking for a URI that will work from Fedora to Windows printer.

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:45 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> I had this working for years. I could print from my Fedora printserver
>>> to a Windows XP with a HP Laserjet 1020 printer. My machine crashwed so
>>> I had to rebuild the server. Now I can't find a URI that will work in
>>> printing using CUPS from the Fedora machine to the Windows machine.
>>>
>>> The 1020 is on a usb port. Can someone make a suggestion?
>> For printing from Fedora to a Windows printer:
>>
>> smb://WINSERVERNAME\WinUserID:Password@WINDOMAIN/winservername/PrinterName
>>
>> where:
>> 	WINSERVERNAME is the DNS name of the Windows machine
>> 	WinUserID is the userid of a valid login user on the Windows machine
>> 	Password is the password for the above Windows userid
>> 	WINDOMAIN is the domain name or workgroup name to which the Windows 
>> machine belongs
>> 	winservername is the windows machine name again
>> and	PrinterName is the name of the printer you are trying to print to
>>
>> It is supposed to be possible to print without having a valid Windows 
>> user id, but I've never been able to make it work consistently, but the 
>> above *does* work consistently.  On the Fedora side, you'll need to 
>> install the appropriate CUPS driver for the printer being printed to.
> Well three comments.
> 1. The above URI does not work for me in the CUPS web interface or in
> system-config-printer. In each case it says this is a bad device
> description. Which did you use?

Cut and Pasted from my /etc/cups/printers.conf file.

I'm pretty sure it was entered via the CUPS web page interface, but 
maybe not exactly as that....

> 2. When I got it to work previously I did not include a passwd.Which
> seems very insecure to me.

Me neither, but since its kept in system administration files, I didn;t 
think twice about it (printers.conf is 600 root lp).

> 3. When setting it up what type of URI did your say this was? LPD, IPP,
> or what?

smb

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