This problem may really be a Windows XP issue, but I'm posting here because - let's face it - the people on this list are experts on everything. I used to access an Epson Stylus Color 860 printer share on a Windows 98 box from my SuSE Linux 9.0 machine using Samba. No problems. However, the Windows 98 machine has been retired and the printer is now on a Windows XP machine. Now I cannot print to it from Linux. Linux just doesn't see the share. "smbclient -L host" returns all the shares on the XP machine. The printer is not one of them. File sharing, however, works fine. Two other Windows 98 machines on the network also fail to see the share. So it looks like this is not a Linux-to-Windows problem. So I'm forced to conclude one of two things: Either the Windows XP drivers for the printer do not allow networking or there is some trick to sharing a printer on Windows XP that I do not know about. This is quite possible as I use Linux almost exclusively these days and Windows is just a fading nightmare as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone have any observations or advice about how I should go about trying to resolve the issue? Best wishes - Ken
Kenneth Payne wrote:
Does anyone have any observations or advice about how I should go about trying to resolve the issue? Did you share the printer in XP? It would show up in smbclient -L host if it was shared. Since the disk shares show up and the printer doesn't, I would guess you forgot to share the printer. AFAIK that has nothing to do with the printer driver. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Saturday 19 February 2005 3:42 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Did you share the printer in XP? It would show up in smbclient -L host if it was shared. Since the disk shares show up and the printer doesn't, I would guess you forgot to share the printer. AFAIK that has nothing to do with the printer driver. --
Joe - Thanks for your interest in my problem. The printer is definitely shared - I set the share myself as a user with administrative privileges and the icon for the printer has the "open hand" sharing symbol. The printer is shared as "NetworkedEpson". Output from smbclient -L hp gives : Domain=[TUX-NET] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- IPC$ IPC Remote IPC print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk SHP Files Disk transfer Disk Optimise Disk Server Comment --------- ------- HP hp RAVENCLAW Samba Server SHP Workgroup Master --------- ------- TUX-NET HP No mention of NetworkedEpson or any printer share. Is there something else you need to do to get this to work? It worked great when the printer was on WIndows 98. Best wishes - Ken
Kenneth Payne wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2005 3:42 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Did you share the printer in XP? It would show up in smbclient -L host if it was shared. Since the disk shares show up and the printer doesn't, I would guess you forgot to share the printer. AFAIK that has nothing to do with the printer driver. --
Joe -
Thanks for your interest in my problem.
The printer is definitely shared - I set the share myself as a user with administrative privileges and the icon for the printer has the "open hand" sharing symbol. The printer is shared as "NetworkedEpson".
Output from smbclient -L hp gives :
Domain=[TUX-NET] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- IPC$ IPC Remote IPC print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk SHP Files Disk transfer Disk Optimise Disk
Server Comment --------- ------- HP hp RAVENCLAW Samba Server SHP
Workgroup Master --------- ------- TUX-NET HP
No mention of NetworkedEpson or any printer share.
Is there something else you need to do to get this to work? It worked great when the printer was on WIndows 98.
Best wishes
- Ken
I have had the same problem with windows XP. It just refuses to share even with a windows 98 system. It will not work with linux samba either. I have heard you need to go to win XP pro to get it to woek. If anyone knows how to get it to work I would also be interested. Bob Rawlinson
On Saturday 19 February 2005 9:24 pm, Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
I have had the same problem with windows XP. It just refuses to share even with a windows 98 system. It will not work with linux samba either. I have heard you need to go to win XP pro to get it to woek. If anyone knows how to get it to work I would also be interested. Bob Rawlinson
Luckily I have another Windows 98 machine on my network. I think I'll just move the printer on to that. XP seems a total washout (why am I not surprised?) Best wishes - Ken
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:22, Kenneth Payne wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2005 9:24 pm, Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
I have had the same problem with windows XP. It just refuses to share even with a windows 98 system. It will not work with linux samba either. I have heard you need to go to win XP pro to get it to woek. If anyone knows how to get it to work I would also be interested. Bob Rawlinson
Luckily I have another Windows 98 machine on my network. I think I'll just move the printer on to that. XP seems a total washout (why am I not surprised?)
Why not put it on the Linux box instead? Share it out with Samba. Just a suggestion. Mike
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:22, Kenneth Payne wrote:
On Saturday 19 February 2005 9:24 pm, Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
I have had the same problem with windows XP. It just refuses to share even with a windows 98 system. It will not work with linux samba either. I have heard you need to go to win XP pro to get it to woek. If anyone knows how to get it to work I would also be interested. Bob Rawlinson
Luckily I have another Windows 98 machine on my network. I think I'll just move the printer on to that. XP seems a total washout (why am I not surprised?)
Why not put it on the Linux box instead? Share it out with Samba. Just a suggestion.
Or share it with CUPS. XP can access http & ipp printers. W98 can as well, with an update applied.
Kenneth Payne wrote:
The printer is definitely shared - I set the share myself as a user with administrative privileges and the icon for the printer has the "open hand" sharing symbol. The printer is shared as "NetworkedEpson".
I just took a look at the URL shared by Mike, and one idea is to shorten the name to 8 letters or less. It could be a name problem since it is so long. After all, you are working with a crippled OS. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
I've fixed the problem, thanks to the help of all the people on this list. I was using Windows XP Professional which has the guest account turned off by default (unlike XP home). I turned on the guest account, re-booted and the printer can be seen on the network. Thanks again to everyone who helped, especially Mike McMullin who pointed me to a web site with the answer. Best wishes - Ken
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 04:21, Kenneth Payne wrote:
I've fixed the problem, thanks to the help of all the people on this list.
I was using Windows XP Professional which has the guest account turned off by default (unlike XP home). I turned on the guest account, re-booted and the printer can be seen on the network.
Thanks again to everyone who helped, especially Mike McMullin who pointed me to a web site with the answer.
Actually thank you for the question Ken. I've been asked about this from folks running pirate versions of XP and I won't bust a gut going for a fix because of that. Your's was a legitimate question and I was interested in it. SO now I have to go find that page again. ;)
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 07:21, Kenneth Payne wrote:
This problem may really be a Windows XP issue, but I'm posting here because - let's face it - the people on this list are experts on everything.
I used to access an Epson Stylus Color 860 printer share on a Windows 98 box from my SuSE Linux 9.0 machine using Samba. No problems. However, the Windows 98 machine has been retired and the printer is now on a Windows XP machine.
Now I cannot print to it from Linux.
Linux just doesn't see the share.
"smbclient -L host" returns all the shares on the XP machine. The printer is not one of them.
File sharing, however, works fine.
Two other Windows 98 machines on the network also fail to see the share. So it looks like this is not a Linux-to-Windows problem.
So I'm forced to conclude one of two things:
Either the Windows XP drivers for the printer do not allow networking or there is some trick to sharing a printer on Windows XP that I do not know about.
This is quite possible as I use Linux almost exclusively these days and Windows is just a fading nightmare as far as I'm concerned.
Does anyone have any observations or advice about how I should go about trying to resolve the issue?
Google for it. There are a large number of hits on xp+printer+sharing Here's one example : http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1596 it has info on sharing printers from XP.
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