Problem with adding samba printer in Herd 5

Matías Szeftel mszeftel at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Mar 5 01:31:39 UTC 2007


Foxy escribió:
> 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..."
>>     

A long chance but, is this a typo?
smb://WORKGROUP/AK-PC/dx3800 .
Shound't it be:
smb://WORKGROUP/AC-PC/dx3800? (note the C for the K)




	

	
		
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