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

[Luca Ferrari]

On 18:11, giovedì 10 febbraio 2005 Helge Blischke's cat walking on the 
keyboard  wrote:

> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > On 01:48, giovedì 10 febbraio 2005 Daniel Kasak's cat walking on the
> > keyboard
> >
> > wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > No, I'm sorry but I deleted the first printer and re-created the 2.11
> > one. Nevertheless, the idea is that I cannot print from the network
> > 192.168.1.0 on a printer of a computer on the network 192.168.2.0.
> >
> > Luca
>
> The smbspool backend needs the server's name (in the WIndows/SMB sense)
> as part of the URI, not the IP addr.
>


I've tried with the netbios name (711), but it does not work. I have the host 
in the /etc/hosts file, but maybe samba cannot get the netbios of the other 
network. Could it be a samba setting?

Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978 at infinito.it