[K12OSN] SMB and printing problems

[Henry Burroughs]

Are these Windows XP/2000 machines?  If so, you have to authenticate as
some user in order to view any shares on the machine (the printer wizard
may be pruning systems that it cannot list printer shares, which would
be the XP based systems).  I've had to manually add the shares for
XP/2000 machines to K12LTSP... it required a username/password
combination.

Henry Burroughs
Technology Director
Hilton Head Preparatory School
www.hhprep.org


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:00 -0500, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:12:06 +1300
> From: Krsnendu Dasa <krsnendu at orcon.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] SMB  and printing problems
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
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> Everything is on the same subnet / network
> There are no routers or firewalls between them.
> I can ping by ip address.
> 
> Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:
> 
> > Are all the computers that you want to reach are all in the same 
> > broadcast network?
> > Are there any routers or firewalls setup between them?
> > The fact that you cannot ping them by name may only be a name 
> > resolution problem, can you ping them by IP?
> >  
> >
> >
> > >>> krsnendu at orcon.net.nz 2006-02-27 21:30:44 >>>
> > I am having problems printing to printers attached to windows
> computers
> > on the network.
> >
> > Behind this problem seems to be some SMB inconsistencies.
> > When I go to Nautilus or Konqueror I can correctly browse all the
> > computers and shares in the workgroup.
> > But when I type findsmb from the command line I can only see
> k12ltsp,
> > office and one teacher's laptop is shown 4 times.
> > It shows twice for each ip address (wireless and wired). My laptop
> is
> > not shown and one other teachers laptop is not shown although they
> show
> > fine in nautilus.
> > When I go to set up a printer using printconfig-gui I try to browse
> for
> > my laptop but it is not shown. Only the ones shown by findsmb are
> > listed. I tried entering the share info directly by that didn't
> work 
> > either.
> > I can ping my computer because I have listed it in etc/hosts
> > I cannot ping any other computers by name even though they are
> listed
> > under findsmb.
> >
> > When I type smbstatus my computer is listed but it says $IPC whereas
> the
> > other computers say School Int before it. I am not sure if that is
> > relevant or not.
> >
> > Hope someone can point me in the right direction to try to work this
> out.
> >
> > I am using K12ltsp 4.2.1
> >
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