Progress Report:
Wimp came home.
Following a suggestion in the "Sharing a printer with SAMBA"
string, I put "load printers = yes" in the [global] section of
smb.conf. Next, I told wimp to add a network printer and, in
the appropriate box, typed
http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp
and wimp asked for and I entered my regular user name and
password. After a brief delay, wimp asked for printer
information and, after I selected HP and DeskJet 940c, announce
the printer was installed and available. I tried sending a line
of text from MSWord and it seemed to be transmitted but nothing
was printed. Checking /var/log/cups/log.phoenix I found:
auto-typing file
unsupported format 'application/octel stream'
sending error:
client-error-document-format-not-supported
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:38:29AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:17:00PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:27:02PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> > | Main computer is Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel connected through a Linksys
> > | Wireless Point Router to a DSL modem. Printer is HP Deskjet 940c
> > | installed with CUPS. KDE System print manager says its URI is
> > | ipp://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. (Phoenix has nothing to do with software
> > | of that name; I named the computer Phoenix because I have rebuilt it so
> > | many times.)
> > |
> > | Laptop (my grandson's, not mine, with his homework paper) is an IBM
> > | Thinkpad, Windows XP with an Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter. Windows XP
> > | Add Printer cannot find the Phoenix printer though it has no trouble
> > | connecting to the internet through the Router.
> > |
> > | If I reboot the main computer to Windows 98 (which I hate to do) the
> > | laptop can find the printer. How can I persuade it to find the Debian
> > | system?
> >
> > AFAIK WinXP doesn't like old-school MS 'share-level shares'. Win98
> > hardly knows anything other than that, so it doesn't have a problem.
> > You might need to set up samba (on the debian machine) more like an
> > NT/2k domain controller for XP to interact with it via SMB.
> >
> > However, I've heard rumors that Win2k and WinXP support IPP. If so,
> > you can ditch legacy MS vices and use an open standard instead. From
> > what I've heard, when/where windows asks for the path/url to the
> > printer, specify http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. Then it should use
> > TCP/IP for transport and network (in place of SMB) and HTTP/IPP for
> > the actual printer access. If this works, please post any relevant
> > details others should know to set that up.
> >
> > HTH,
> > -D
>
> No definitive answer for a few days; laptop went to school with my
> grandson.
>
> WinXP does offer the option to add a network printer by specifying
> http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. When I tried it, XP could not find the
> printer BUT when I next downloaded samba XP couldn't find the computer
> until I told samba workgroup=PHOENIX and even then could not find the
> printer. I know XP is now communicating with Phoenix because of the
> messages in /var/log/samba/log.phoenix. There is also now a log.wimp
> but it is empty. wimp is the XP's name.
>
> I have not mastered the samba setup - users, passwords, encryption,
> printers, etc. I thought it should be a simple matter of making the
> printer available to all guests but wimp demands a user name and
> passwork before it will look for the printer. It can't be root as that,
> properly, is blocked in smb.conf. Naturally I tried my normal user name
> but log.phoenix shows this was refused. When wimp comes back from
> school I'll try again to sort this out.
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > --
> > (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network?
> >
> > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
>
>
>
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