[xubuntu-users] make printer work

[Peter Flynn]

On 05/24/2015 01:26 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good evening
> I am sure, this is just some sort of setting.

I'm afraid not: CUPS has rather poor interfaces on most platforms (even
Macs), and setting up a new printer is often painful. Its
error-reporting and diagnostics for the end-user are also not great.

It looks like you have done everything right so far, but

a. Make sure CUPS and samba are installed and running

$ sudo service samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is running
$ sudo service cups status
cups start/running, process 3245
$

>> From menu: add printer.

b. What did you click on to get this menu?

I don't know the Mint variant interfaces, but usually you have to run
the Settings program and pick Printers first. But maybe Min has a
separate Add Printer menu...

c. You can check to see what you have done by opening your browser and
using CUPS's web interface:

   http://localhost:631

Maybe that will have a clue about what's happening.

d. Failing that, I'm afraid all you can do is check the logs in
/var/log/cups and /var/log/samba

///Peter