Printing to a Windows 2000 server shared printer

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Thursday 06 March 2008 08:41, O. Sinclair wrote:
> I got a really weird problem. For various reasons I had to downgrade a
> server from Windows2003 to Windows2000. In other words complete
> reinstall. This is now used as a workgroup server, not a domain server.
>
> On that I installed and shared a printer. I have no problems using it
> from XP clients and had no problems finding it in SMB4K. I also had no
> problems printing to it while it was on Windows 2003 (domain). But now
> we who are on Kubuntu can not see it in CUPS or Printer "wizard" and can
> not print to it in any way I can think of, like using ip address instead
> of servername etc.
>
> anyone have an idea I can try cause this is a major nuisance. And I can
> not upgrade again, an app runs on it now that works better in Win2000
> than 2003.
>
> Sinclair

Hi,

I'm no expert and you may already have better knowledge/advise,  but since no 
one elese replied, just a guess...
CUPS is perhaps expecting W$ 2003 (it figured that and stored it somewhere 
when it was installed ?)
In that case reinstalling CUPS or perhaps just deleting the right file from 
~/.kde could do the trick.
A quick try would be to rename ~/.kde as ~/.kde.bak and revert if it does not 
work. (you probably know that trick already, don't you?)
You didn't specify the version of Kubuntu you tried but I would just expect 
that it should normally be able to use a shared printer.   :o)
I'm somewhat puzzled by your  Printer "wizard" not doing its job, but it may 
not have been expecting that the same old server with same IP address 
changed.

HTH		Perry



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