Printing

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Calvin Park [2004-10-15 10:28 -0400]:
> I tried to access a shared printer on another machine (the other machine
> is running Windows XP). After going through the setup I right clicked on
> the printer and selected properties. Under status it says, "Ready:
> Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...foomatic-rip
> version $Revision: 3.43.2.5 $ running..."

Okay, since it wasn't the recent bugfix, can you please try to access
the printer manually? Then it might reveal an error that cannot be
seen from the graphical user interface. Please try

  export DEVICE_URI="smb://username:password@workgroup/server/printer"
  echo Hello | smbspool 1 user "Test print" 1 ""

Please fill un username, password, etc. as appropriate (see "man
smbspool" for help). This will probably not print out anything, but it
should connect to the printer (or show some error if it can't).

If it cannot connect, does

  smbclient -L //server -U username

work and shows the printer?

Martin

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