Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[marc]

Gene Heskett said:

> On Thursday 14 May 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
>>On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:37 +0300, Willy Hamra wrote:
>>> 2009/5/9 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
>>> > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:15 +0000, marc wrote:
>>> >> Ric Moore said:
>>> >> > But this may shed some light... When I worked at RedHat, I could
>>> >> > never get my Ex's printer to work. Darn embarrassing to be on the
>>> >> > Help Desk fixing everyone elses printers. We had one whizbang
>>> >> > that fired up emacs, had ten terminals with code pouring down the
>>> >> > screens like the matrix. Impressed me! Then he started narrowing
>>> >> > down the problem to samba not being configured correctly. I'm
>>> >> > going she doesn't NEED Samba and I ripped it out. The printer
>>> >> > worked right off. Samba was trying to network a printer that
>>> >> > hadn't been configured correctly for the system. The cart before
>>> >> > the horse, so to speak. You can rip out Samba, after saving
>>> >> > config files if you need it or rip it out for good if you don't
>>> >> > need it. One less thing in the way.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'll give that a spin. Thanks.
>>> >
>>> > Let us know how it works. I later re-installed Samba on her machine
>>> > and it picked up on the local printer it found and configured it for
>>> > use easily. I guess it needs to be configured locally before the
>>> > install of samba. It would be interesting if this was indeed the
>>> > case. Good Luck! Ric
>>>
>>> my samsung ML-1610 works out of the box in jaunty, it got recognized
>>> right away and auto-configured while installing jaunty alpha-3 or 4,
>>> cant remember from an alternate CD. and in all previous versions,
>>> using http://localhost:631 always opens up a CUSP page, and the
>>> printer can always be found by the detect new printer functionality,
>>> which configures the printer way easier than add a new printer. and
>>> yes, my printer is USB as well.
>>> can you make sure the printer is detected by the system? i'm no lspci
>>> or lsusb or whatever expert, but kinfocenter/USB should point you in
>>> the right direction if the printer is seen or not.
>>
>>Samba will steal it and put permissions to it. I know that one from hard
>>experience as I noted. I'd really like to know how this turns out. :)


> That secret is to remove an printers section in the smb.conf.  Nuke it
> totally.  In all machines.

We have a winnner!

All I did was nuke the [printers] section in smb.comf and restart samba. 
Then, when I ran system-config-printer, it found it and installed it.

I would love to test it, but the yellow ink pot is now dry, and with 
these KDE4-style printers (i.e. huge regressions) the thing will not 
print until I install a new one... even though there is a separate black-
only pot, which is full and all that is needed.

I'll post an update when I can find some new ink!

-- 
Best,
Marc