polemicz Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 I have gone from 8.2 to 9.0 and have one big problem: I can no longer access my remote printer (HP usb printer). Was no problem in 8.1 and 8.2, but now I can't even see it, used MCC ans xsmbrowser. When setting it up with PrinterDrake it found the remote printer automatically and even thought it printed a test page. The problem seems to be Samba, I checked my smb.conf and it looks fine. Samba finds all my shared files, but not the shared usb printer! I'm running on, sorry, but anyone who can help please do so. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 Samba only provides the transport for the printer file that is sent to the print share. Most smbclient/smbmount front-ends don't show printer shares, since they can't so anything with them. You can check with smbclient, which should show you: [bgmilne@bgmilne bgmilne]$ smbclient -L cm -I 192.168.0.253 added interface ip=192.168.0.251 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- CDROM Disk D Disk PRINTER$ Disk LASER Printer C Disk WPS Disk IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication Server Comment --------- ------- CM win98se Workgroup Master --------- ------- HOME CM If the print share is shown, then that is about it ... (although we can test the share itself also). Just take a look in your /etc/cups/printers.conf, and see if the details are correct. AFAICR, the url should be something like: smb://user:password@workgroup/server/print_share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 Here is what I got with smbclient -L ALIEN (win xp machine) followed by smbclient -L linux-john (linux box). With -I 192.168.0.253 got a problem with win box :"connection to ALIEN failed, error connecting to 192.168.0.253 (operation already in progress). added interface ip=192.168.1.103 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.101 ( 192.168.1.101 ) Domain=[@HOME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- My Documents Disk IPC$ IPC Remote IPC SharedDocs Disk print$ Disk Printer Drivers HPDeskJe Printer HP DeskJet 930C/932C/935C music Disk Server Comment --------- ------- ALIEN Alienware Aurora LINUX-JOHN linux-john NOAH Workgroup Master --------- ------- @HOME ALIEN added interface ip=192.168.1.103 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.103 ( 192.168.1.103 ) Domain=[@HOME] OS=[unix] Server=[samba 2.2.6pre2] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- public Disk Public Stuff IPC$ IPC IPC Service (linux-john) ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (linux-john) HPDeskjet Printer john Disk Home directory of john Server Comment --------- ------- ALIEN Alienware Aurora LINUX-JOHN linux-john Workgroup Master --------- ------- @HOME ALIEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 Well, samba is seeing the printer share on the machine (hpdeskje I guess)? Can you post your /etc/cups/printers.conf It should have a section for that printer, with a url of: smb://username:password/home/alien/hpdeskje You could test it with a text file, like this: smbclient //alien/hpdeskje -U username smbclient>print /etc/fstab If you don't get a light flashing or paper coming out the printer, then there may be an issue with samba. If you do, then it's probably CUPS configuration that's stuffed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 here's my cups printer conf file: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.16 # Written by cupsd on Sun 13 Oct 2002 09:56:14 PM GMT <DefaultPrinter HPDeskjet> Info hp deskjet Location alien DeviceURI smb://HOME/ALIEN/HPDeskJe State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 oops forgot: did smbclient //alien etc and print /etc/fstab as suggested. It worked! Now what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sroubekf Posted December 9, 2002 Report Share Posted December 9, 2002 I have got exactly the same problem. This is what I have posted on MandrakeExpert but so far without any answer: ---------------------------------------------- I do not have an access to a printer on XP from my Linux box using cups and smb. I setup my printing stuff with printdrake for two remote printers, one is on XP and one is on HP-UNIX with samba and/or LPD queue. Printing to the printer on HP via samba or LPD queue works, but to XP box I get an error in /var/log/cups/error.log: E [06/Dec/2002:14:31:48 0100] SMB tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. E [06/Dec/2002:14:31:48 0100] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...: Success. The funny thing is that I can print on the XP printer if I use "smbclient //WORKGROUP/HOST/PRINTER" and then "print file". The problem is probably in the cups configuration on my Linux machine or the XP configuration. I have heard that maybe I should enable 137-139 ports on XP. Is this the problem? ------------------------------------ Have you found an answer, polemicz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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