boyce1 Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Hi Everyone, I am trying to set up a printer locally attached to a PC running Mandrake to be accessible to a laptop running Windows 2000 and a desktop running XP Pro. I have installed the printer and an I am able to local print. I "believe" I have shared the printer via SAMBA. The 2000 system was able to see the printer and I set it up without any errors. When I try to print a test, at text file from Notepad, I select the printer, click print and get an error message (on the Windows system) stating, "A StartDocPrinter call was not issued." Google found several instances of this problem but I was unable to find a solution. Haven't tried with the XP box yet... Any suggestions as to where the problem might be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 You'll need to set up CUPS for your printing sharing - this can be done through the MCC or by an internal web based interface at http://localhost:631/ When trying to do some admin stuff here, you'll be prompted for u-name/pswd at username type: root password: <root password here> Look here http://www.cups.org/ for documentation re:SAMBA/CUPS there was some at documentation>faq but I think it may have been moved around? There have been some recent posts here at MUB about XP/MDK > SAMBA/CUPS search around this board for the posts/solutions. CUPS set up is fairly straightforward, though I don't know about sharing across SAMBA as I don't use M$ anymore :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyce1 Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Hi ChrisM, I gave CUPS a try and now I am getting messages that say either cannot connect or access denied so I think I have some type of security problem perhaps. Thanks for your reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 (edited) If you access CUPS from MCC it should automatically detect printers on your network - I can't say I've come across it denying access etc this way. If you access CUPS throught the web browser, it will require root/root pswd as in my earlier post. Have you located those recent posts about SAMBA/CUPS here at MUB - I feel pretty confident they will be useful. They have been recent, only in last couple weeks or so. Try looking through the Networking forum - I think they should be there. I haven't used SAMBA so can't really advise otherwise - I've generally found CUPS to be pretty straight forward across linux - so it may be related to your SAMBA set up/permissions? Sorry I can't be any more helpful...hopefully somebody with SAMBA will guide you through. Good luck. Edited January 31, 2005 by ChrisM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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