On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Steel City Phantom wrote:
I have followed every howto i can find on getting printing to work with cups.
i finally gave up and plugged the printer into my windows machine and shared
it there. now, my wife's Linspire machine can see it and print fine
(Linspire uses kde 3.4, cups, samba share). Now my fresh new bsd 6 machine
can't see the same smb share. I go add printer, SMB Shared Printer, put in
the user administrator and password, click on the refresh to see all the
workgroups, workgroup shows fine, open the windows server workgroup and no
server. i go to a command prompt and do a smbclient -U bla -L server and i
see a list of all shares, including the hidden ones and the printer i wish to
print to.
If i type the information in manually, then it adds the printer to cups but
shows the status as stopped.
I have tried every combination of this i can think of, nothing seems to work.
you guys have any ideas?
Yes, two:
1) You could buy one of these small ready-to-use printer servers
(20 - 30 EUR around here). They will serve each computer
seperately via network and - you don't need to have a whole
computer up and running.
2) Most people don't know Cups can work as a printer server
without the help of Samba. If you were able to set up Cups on
one machine (either FreeBSD or Linux) it could serve the
others (even Windows) via network.
Regards,
Uli.
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