[cups.general] adding a samba printer of another network

[Daniel Kasak]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On 23:30, martedì 8 febbraio 2005 Daniel Kasak's cat walking on the keyboard  
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Luca Ferrari wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>if I want to add a printer to cups (SMB printer) in the same network of
>>>the linux machine, I can use lpadmin:
>>>lpadmin -v smb://s93/hps93 .......
>>>
>>>but what if I want to add a printer of another network? Where can I
>>>specify the ip address? I've tried with something like:
>>>lpadmin -v smb://192.168.2.20/hps20
>>>and the printer is added, but it does not work then.
>>>
>>>Any help?
>>>
>>>Luca
>>
>>That looks right. I use the web admin tool, so I can't comment on the
>>'lpadmin' bit of it, but the device URI is correct.
>>
>>For smb shares, remember you may have to enter a username / password,
>>which makes your URI:
>>
>>smb://username:password@192.168.2.20/hps20
>>
>>Also check you can ping 192.168.2.20, and check that you can see the
>>share, with something like:
>>
>>smbclient -U username -L 192.168.2.20
>>[enter password]
>>
>>Also, is this 'other network' a domain? You may have to join the domain
>>before you're able to connect.
>>
>>Also, next time you post, try adding some logs. It makes it easier to
>>figure out what the problem is.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, the network is not a domain, and I have guest access to the printer, so 
> I don't need a username/password.
> Here there's an example of the output of logs:
> 
> I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Adding start banner page "none" to job 40.
> I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Adding end banner page "none" to job 40.
> I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Job 40 queued on 'hp711' by 'root'.
> 
> where hp711 has the following configuration in the printers.conf:
> 
> <Printer hp711>
> Info Centralino Roteglia
> DeviceURI smb://192.168.2.11/hp711
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> 
> 
> Of course I can ping the machine, as well as I can smbclient it:
> 
> sede:/var/log/cups # smbclient -L 711 -I 192.168.2.11
> Password:
> 
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         PRINTER$        Disk
>         HP711           Printer
>         IPC$            IPC       Comunicazioni remote tra processi
> 
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 

You're using 2 different IP addresses. Your original post talks of 
192.168.2.20 and your most recent post talks of 192.168.2.11

Is this the problem?