Sending jobs to HP4 Connected to Windows98 machine
SuSE 7.0 Pers, Kernel 2.2.19, X 4.1, KDE 2.2, Samba 2.0.10 Looking for some advice/help. This may be a samba issue, but Im just not sure. Windows98 machine with a shared printer named HP4 (no password) and queue name of HP4; printer sharing is turned on in the network setup. Host files on both machines have corresponding entries so that each computer can be ping'd by name or IP. Sending printjobs from Suse to the windows machine --using the command lpr -Premote [text file name] doesnt seem to work. In the spool directory there are two data files, a lock, log, status and acct file. The status file contains "waiting for C147040X-a to come up". The printer is on and waiting for jobs from the Win98 machine. I have used lprsetup to setup the remote queue, and to setup the pre-filter. I have looked on SuSE's SDB and linuxprinting.org for help but I need to first find out if it's Samba or just the way I am defining the printers,queues, pre-filters. Thanks Eric
It is not the Samba configuration on the Linux machine. Samba shares
printers and files on the Linux machine with Windows and Linux
machines. You are going the other direction. I used YAST to setup
printing and there weren't any problems. I just filled in the blanks
and it worked.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Eric Warner
SuSE 7.0 Pers, Kernel 2.2.19, X 4.1, KDE 2.2, Samba 2.0.10
Looking for some advice/help. This may be a samba issue, but Im just not sure.
Windows98 machine with a shared printer named HP4 (no password) and queue name of HP4; printer sharing is turned on in the network setup. Host files on both machines have corresponding entries so that each computer can be ping'd by name or IP. Sending printjobs from Suse to the windows machine the spool directory there are two data files, a lock, log, status and acct file. The status file contains "waiting for C147040X-a to come up". The printer is on and waiting for jobs from the Win98 machine. I have used lprsetup to setup the remote queue, and to setup the pre-filter.
I have looked on SuSE's SDB and linuxprinting.org for help but I need to first find out if it's Samba or just the way I am defining the printers,queues, pre-filters.
Thanks
Eric
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
On 27 Aug 2001 12:00:37 -0400, Eric Warner wrote:
SuSE 7.0 Pers, Kernel 2.2.19, X 4.1, KDE 2.2, Samba 2.0.10
Looking for some advice/help. This may be a samba issue, but Im just not sure.
Windows98 machine with a shared printer named HP4 (no password) and queue name of HP4; printer sharing is turned on in the network setup. Host files on both machines have corresponding entries so that each computer can be ping'd by name or IP...
The printers at my job are all hooked up to Windows machines. I tried several different approaches and finally settled on CUPS as the easiest. Once it was installed, I started up netscape as root and used the URL "http://localhost:631/" to get to the adminstration page. CUPS will use samba as a backend to connect to the printer. You may need to add a link to use your Windows printer if, while adding a printer, you get to the "device" page and don't see an entry for "Windows printer via Samba". The docs say to do (as root): ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb That was all I needed to do. Both it and samba should be available either on your CDs or the SuSE website. Daniel
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