Thanks for the help...

I installed the Unix print service and things still don't work. On yast i tried to change the spooler from cups to LPRng. For my surprise at least the test page during the yast setup worked. But for some strange reason printing still doesn't work with any other

Dear my friends.... I want to use a printer which attached to a windows xp station. I print from suse linux 8.2 station. the printer runs properly if I print from the windows xp. I've tryed this threat which I found in the archived of our beloved mailing-list (suse-linux-e). what I've done as follows... 1. I installed unix print services on the windows xp station. 2. activate and setup to be started automatically the tcp/ip print server. 3. using yast2 on the suse linux 8.2 station, I did...(as root): 3.1. open hardware menu-->printer-->configure. 3.2. chosed : show more connection types. 3.3. chosed : other printer (set uri). 3.4. typed for connection uri : " smb://patrix:lebaran@wg.siemens.de/patrix_xp/epson810 " 3.5. chosed non-yast2 ppd file 3.6. browse-->chosed epson folder 3.7. chosed : Stylus_Photo_810-gimp-print-ijs.ppd.gz 3.8. next-->ok-->finished But it still doesn't work. I tried printing from the suse linux 8.2 station with open office. but again, the printer of the windows xp station still doesn't perform printing. Please teach me... I am getting frustrated now... Thanks alot in advance. ======= From: Linuxjim <linuxjim@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:58:23 -0600 Message-Id: <200311021158.23758.linuxjim@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] How to use a WIndows XP printer via samba? On Saturday 01 November 2003 20:14, Gustavo Rahal wrote: program.

What do you mean by non-yast driver? How did you

manually setup your

printer?

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:10, Patrick Heffernan wrote:

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Gustavo Rahal <listas@grahal.net> wrote:

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Hi

I'm trying to configure suse 9 to print to a Epson CX3200 that is on a shared windows xp machine. When configuring the

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selected "Print via SMB Network Server" and followed all the steps. Everything seemed to be right (yast detects the

Gustavo, I have been wrestling with this same problem for months. Could not get the XP printer to work from Suse. I did get it to work using Patrick's suggestion using the XP Unix Print services. But, after you install the service on XP you have to start it. Go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services. Find the service called TCP/IP Print Server and start it. After that you can set it to start on Automatic. Then, reconfigure your printer on Suse. Start from scratch and use LPR (not SMB/Samba). The unix print service in XP uses LPR. It should find the IP address of your XP box, and then the shared printer. I used the Yast drivers as they are a better fit for my HP Deskjet, but not sure if this matters. That should work. I can now print from Konquer and other apps, but for some reason can't print from Kmail wihch seems to crash. Still working on that one. As an assisde, I have not been successfuel in getting print to work on the XP box using Samba. You should not need the XP unix printer service to print with Samba. Best regards, Linuxjim printer on yast I printer on winXP). The

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only problem is that nothing is happening! When sending a job the "processing" state remains forever... Does anyone have any idea?

I had the same problem. I used the Non Yast driver for my XP Epson printer, and also in winXP, add and remove Windows components -> Other Networking and Print Services, and add Unix print services. Works like a charm with an Epson Stylus Photo 720 this way.

HTH

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