trouble printing from xp to debian

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Thu Jun 24 04:43:56 PDT 2004


hadoque wrote:
> 
> I have a small network with 3 computers, 2 with windows xp and one
> with Debian. My plan is to use the debian box as a printer server
> amongst other things.
> I have successfully installed the printer with the cusp web interface,
> and it prints like it should from the linux box. I have also
> successfully installed samba, I can access files from on the debian
> box from the xp ones.
> I have tried two approaches to printing from the xp boxes. First I
> connected directly to the printer via url:
> http://debianbox:631/printers/debianprinter. Windows signals the
> printer as ready, but when I try to print, nothing happens, and this
> is reported in the error log:
> E [23/Jun/2004:19:30:05 +0200] get_printer_attrs: resource name
> '/printers/lp' no good!
> E [23/Jun/2004:19:30:05 +0200] get_jobs: resource name '/printers/lp'
> no good!
> The same thing applys to printing with samba, i succesfully add the
> printer in SWAT, and get a ready signal from it in xp, but when I
> print nothing happens. I don't have a clue on how to get this to work.
> I've looked at various documentation and discussions, but to no use...
> Anyone know what the problem is?
> smb.conf is here: http://www.apspektakel.com/smb.conf
> and cupsd.conf is here: http://www.apspektakel.com/cupsd.conf

I noticed one thing: the printer name in your smb.conf must be the same
as the one configured in CUPS.

Helge

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