[cups.general] printing to windows printer

[tadek at telus.net]

Till,

Thank you. It now works.  All installed packages were up-to-date, but I missed installation of some: nss_wins, samba-swat,samba-winbind.
(I don't know which one resolved the problem. Which one do you think?)

After installing them printer was not printing properly (test page was scrambled), but I quickly fixed it by changing the hp driver from
HP DeskJet 2000 series-CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7 (en) to
HP LaserJet 2100 Series (en).

One observation and one question:

When I used ESP CUPS (localhost:631) configuration tool, and step through modifying added printer, somehow it modifies URI (user/password disappears) and to make printer again I have to delete printer and add it again entering proper URI.

Now question: Kurt Pfeifle's HOWTO (Troubleshooting-CUPS...) in section 'Other Items to Check'is talking about utility cups-config.  It would be very useful to have during my struggle.  Why is it missing from Mandrake package installer?  (I guess I could get it from cups.org, but...)

Once again thank you very much for your help.

Tad
Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Can you try to change your URI to
>
> smb://MSHOME/tad:tadek@TAD-DESKTOP/HP2100
>
> and tell whether this helps? If you have the updates described below
> this should not be really necessary, but try it if anything else fails.
>
> Are you sure that you have the following updates installed?
>
> http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:164
> http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:158
>
> See also the following bug report:
>
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12272
>
>     Till
>
>
> tadek at telus.net wrote:
> > I was tired last night and in my reply I forgot to say that it did not solve the problem...
> > tadek wrote:
> >
> >>Thanks Till.  The only new package was libsmbclient 3.0.10-0.101mdk. Everything else was up-to-date.
> >>Tad
> >>Till Kamppeter wrote:
> >>
> >>>Can you update CUPS and Samba to the newest versions from the official
> >>>Mandrakelinux updates. The description of the updates only tells about
> >>>some security fixes, but the updates should also fix your problem.
> >>>
> >>>    Till
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>tadek at telus.net wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>I am begging for help.
> >>>>
> >>>>I am having problem printing to my windows printer from Linux box runing Mandrake 10.1 using CUPS and Samba. I must say that printing in Linux is not my strongest point:(
> >>>>Funny thing is that I am able to print to the same printer from different Linux box (it runs Debian Sarge) with no problem using same technique (Samba/CUPS).
> >>>>
> >>>>Here is the situation:
> >>>>
> >>>>0) I am running Madrake 10.1 with smbd 3.0.10, nmbd 3.0.10
> >>>>   Kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk; Cups 1.1 configured using localhost:631 (uri: smb://tad:tadek@MSHOME/TAD-DESKTOP/HP2100)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>[...]
> >>>
> >>
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