Problem with adding samba printer in Herd 5

[Jelle de Jong]

Foxy wrote:
> 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...

Are you sure it is the correct address? I always use direct IP
addresses! I have two Ethernet based printers HP and use this:
socket://192.168.1.63/
socket://145.52.123.51:9100/