After upgrading my desktop system to SuSE 8.2, I have not been able to print to a printer on Windows ME. However, I can print from my laptop (also SuSE 8.2). At the present time, the /etc/samba/smb.conf files on both systems are identical, and I restarted both the smb and nmb daemons. smbclient shows the following (altered to protect the guilty): gaf@gaf:~> smbclient -L //abc added interface ip=192.168.0.xxx bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: <empty>
Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- PRINTER$ Disk HPPSC2200 Printer xxx's Multi-Function Printer C Disk xxx's C drive IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
The printer is configured with no password.
In YaST when I go to configure the printer: Select SMB Printing Type IP address into host field (that system has a fixed local ip address).
Lookup finds the queue:HPPSC2200
When testing the SMB connnection, YaST reports a problem. It was successful in pinging the other system, but it reports "session request to 192.168.0.yyy failed (Called name not present). Since my laptop could print successfully, and the desktop could not, I compared the /etc/cups/printers.conf files. The only difference between
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:03:16 -0400 Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> wrote: the two files was that the laptop used the host name of the system: DeviceURI smb://:@host/HPPSC2200 where the desktop used the ip address: DeviceURI smb://:@192.168.0.xxx/HPPSC2200 Once I changed this manually, I was able to print successfully. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YK6B+wA+1cUGHqkRApR5AJ4kUZUSbSnWiIcltK8rQ4Mxj9x+jwCaA60L PhryP5BG9d/qQ8j1id3Ns5I= =dN38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----