Windows Printer Sharing

Calvin Park linuxsys at davisny.edu
Tue Oct 19 19:54:09 UTC 2004


Well, I haven't actually connected it to this box to see if it
works...Perhaps I'll try that tomorrow. 

The printer is an HP 712c. I'm using the suggested driver which is
pnm2ppa.

-Calvin

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:40 +0100, Andy wrote:
> Calvin Park wrote:
> > I used the proper username and password for the printer when I set it up
> > on my system (Ubuntu). I've also made sure that the printer is shared.
> .
> .
> > Yes, I can connect to a folder on that computer just fine using the same
> > username and password I tried to use for the printer sharing. 
> 
> Well, that covers the more obvious ones! I'll have a think and if I come 
> up with anything else I'll let you know.
> 
> I'm beginning to wonder if its CUPS related - I'm not all that hot on 
> CUPS :(
> 
> One other though (if it's practical) - does the same printer work if 
> connected directly to th Ubuntu box? Oh, and as Bryan said, what sort of 
> printer is it?
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 





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