[opensuse] adding network printer problems
i'm not sure if i am doing this correctly. earlier last night when i looked at samba shares it was blank. today i can see the two windows machines and i can access the computer where the shared printers are and they are not there. what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the name of the network printer according to the share name on the host machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left those fields blank. when i clicked on the test button, i received the error message: your network access is not properly configured or the print server is unknown or unavailable. check the hostname of the print server or contact your network administrator. what am i missing? what else do i need to set for proper network access? dwain -- Dwain Alford Alford Design Group P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 email: dwain@alford-design-group.com web: http://www.alford-design-group.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Mar 26 05:10 dwain wrote (shortened):
what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the name of the network printer according to the share name on the host machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left those fields blank.
See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_SMB_%28Samba%29_Share_or_Windows_Sha... and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_No_Printout_on_the_XP_Client By the way: If you use special characters (e.g. @%:/ or spaces) for your Windows hosts, workgroups, shares, user names, or passwords, it may not work because such characters may invalidate the CUPS DeviceURI, see "man smbspool" and for basics about CUPS see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Mar 26 05:10 dwain wrote (shortened):
what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the name of the network printer according to the share name on the host machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left those fields blank.
See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_SMB_%28Samba%29_Share_or_Windows_Sha... and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_No_Printout_on_the_XP_Client
By the way: If you use special characters (e.g. @%:/ or spaces) for your Windows hosts, workgroups, shares, user names, or passwords, it may not work because such characters may invalidate the CUPS DeviceURI, see "man smbspool" and for basics about CUPS see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
These two URL's are great. I have SUSE 10.0 talking to a local printer. I want to use SAMBA to allow an XP machine to print through it via a share. Is the first URL above the best one to help me do this? I got the TUXNET showing up on XP but I never did get the printer running. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
dwain wrote:
i'm not sure if i am doing this correctly. earlier last night when i looked at samba shares it was blank. today i can see the two windows machines and i can access the computer where the shared printers are and they are not there.
what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the name of the network printer according to the share name on the host machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left those fields blank.
when i clicked on the test button, i received the error message: your network access is not properly configured or the print server is unknown or unavailable. check the hostname of the print server or contact your network administrator.
what am i missing? what else do i need to set for proper network access?
Just went through this myself. The links you were sent are fine, but they do everything via the commandline. It should work fine from the GUI. You want to do the "Print via SMB Network Service" options. Then type in the workgroup and hostname (the Windows machine with the printer). Click Look Up and it should populate the drop down for the Remote Queue Name. But for me, it got the wrong name (maybe due to the '-' in it?). The "Test Remote SMB Access" button never did work for me. Click Next and give it a local name, description and location. Make sure the "Do Local Filtering" is checked, as SMB needs it. You probably don't want the Share Printer to be checked. Then click next and select the printer model. Then Next and you should be all set. You can finally do a Test printing from here too. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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