Problem with adding samba printer in Herd 5

[Foxy]

Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Foxy wrote:
>> Due to some crash of my laptop I decide to ditch Dapper and switch to 
>> Feisty. This is the first time I decided to install Xubuntu. Before I 
>> usually used Ubuntu with XFCE.
>>
>> The installation was fine but I ran into trouble trying to add Windows 
>> samba printer. I used Settings/Printing. The programme properly 
>> identified my shared printer by clicking on it did not add the printer's 
>> address in the upper window (smb:// ...).
>>
>> I tried to do it manually by enabling localhost:631 and using cups 
>> interface, but still I cannot do it. I think I have the address wrong 
>> for some reason. I tried to run smbtree:
>>> ~$ smbtree 
>>> Password: 
>>> WORKGROUP
>>>         \\NECAPTOP                      necaptop server (Samba, Ubuntu)
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\IPC$                 IPC Service (necaptop server (Samba, Ubuntu))
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\etc_nec        
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\sveta          
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\sasha          
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\alex           
>>>                 \\NECAPTOP\print$               Printer Drivers
>>>         \\AC-PC                         Al's Uber PC
>>>                 \\AC-PC\diskl          
>>>                 \\AC-PC\L$              Default share
>>>                 \\AC-PC\C$              Default share
>>>                 \\AC-PC\H$              Default share
>>>                 \\AC-PC\ADMIN$          Remote Admin
>>>                 \\AC-PC\dx3800          EPSON Stylus DX3800 Series
>>>                 \\AC-PC\diskd          
>>>                 \\AC-PC\print$          Printer Drivers
>>>                 \\AC-PC\SharedDocs     
>>>                 \\AC-PC\D$              Default share
>>>                 \\AC-PC\IPC$            Remote IPC
>>>                 \\AC-PC\diskh          
>> So I put smb://WORKGROUP/AK-PC/dx3800, but CUPS shows
>>> "Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds..."
> 
> Maybe the problem is somewhere else i don't know. But can you mount a
> smb share and use it normally. So we can be sure it is a printer issue?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jelle
> 

Yes, I can do it without any problem...