Fedora 3 - Windows 2000 - HP PSC 950

[Helge Blischke]

doyleed at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> For a couple years I have been running RH9 on a HP Pavilion 9900.  My only printer is a HP PSC950 connected to a home made machine running Windows 2000.  Printing was never a problem.  Setting up the Windows networked printer under CUPS after a initial install of RH9 was no problem.
> 
> Recently I installed Fedora Core 3 from scratch on the HP Pivilion.  The install appeared to go without a hitch, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to print to the PSC950 which is still connected to the same home made  windows machine.
> 
> When I attempt to print anyhting, be it a test page, a application, or even df | lpr, nothing at all happens. However, in the printer queue, I see the following:
> 
>  Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
> "ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess (Invalid open mode.) opening remote file Test Page"
> Device URI: smb://192.168.1.100/HP900
> 
> Any suggestions of what I should read, or post back to you to help reslove this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ed doyleed at gmail.com

It seems to be an issue of the smb backend (the smbspool utility that
comes
with SAMBA). What versions are you running?
Perhaps you try s smbspool from an older SAMBA version.

Helge

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