[cups.general] printer is idle....but NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

[Helge Blischke]

Infinito wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I've got a printer connected to a windows xp machine that is used by a
> linux machine through samba. The printer is working, and in the error
> logs I don't have any sacring message, but if I do a lpstat -p I get:
> 
> printer sts22 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
>          Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60
> seconds...ERROR:  Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> Why is this message being shown?
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca

You'd have to specify a user name and a password valid for connecting to the shared printer
on your XP box in your printer's device-uri.

Helge

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