Now let me apologize for the long, rambling and vague nature of the rest of this post. Unfortunately, that represents my understanding of the printing and sharing processes.
As I said, I added a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer to my Fedora system. It attaches with USB. I already had an Epson Stylus Photo attached by parrallel cable. I am able to print to both printers locally. I am able to print to the Epson remotely. However, I've been unable to print to the Samsung remotely.
I tried printing the same document to both printers from a Win2k laptop. Here's what I got in the CUPS error log:
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Job 262 queued on 'ml-1710' by 'andrew'.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11195) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11196) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/ppmtospl2 (PID 11197) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 11198) for job 262.
W [14/Jan/2004:10:48:46 -0600] [Job 262] Media tray empty!
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Job 263 queued on 'stylusphoto' by 'andrew'.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11202) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11203) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 11204) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 11205) for job 263.
The media tray is not empty on the ml-1710. I can turn around and print to it sucessfully locally. It seems like CUPS doesn't really know about the ML-1710.
When I installed the software from Samsung, it installed something called the Linux Printing Package. This seems to replace lpr. When printing from applications, it throws up a window after all the application printing windows and I make the choice of the printer there. I'm wondering if this is somehow interfering with the Samba sharing.
If it's not apparent, I really don't know how to approach this problem. Any suggestions on tracks to follow, logs to track down, anything would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
