Below is a copy of the message I replied to last week. Hope this helps. I tried a lot of stuff on RH8.0 with out luck. With FC1 it pretty much dropped in place once I had the correct permissions and user/password combination. When I went back to RH8.0 I had messed with it so much that I had to use the CUPS interface to create the queue using SMB. On a new install of RH8.0 I used the same stuff I learned from FC1 and it worked without using the CUPS interface. FC2 I found worked just as easy as FC1. On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 04:25, A. Lanza wrote: > I think i have both samba client and cups running. How can i check? > On the other hand, i'm using gnome desktop. I've tried to connect to a > printer with the GUI utility with no luck :( > > Any more help? I struggled with this for a while also. I finally had success on a FC1 system and subsequently on an FC2 system. I used that information to go back and get it working on my Redhat 8.0 systems as well but that required setting up the queue in the cups interface for some reason. Under FC2 I found the following worked. First, make sure you have samba configured and working. Add a user on the FC2 system using the smbpasswd -a username command. On the windows system setup the same user and password. (assumption here is that you are using user security for samba, this may work for domains but have not tried it.) Double check on the windows box that the printer is actually shared. On the FC2 box run the system-config-printer (or select it from the menu System Settings --> Printing) Walk through adding a new printer. When it prompts you will need to fill in the following information: name of queue: set this to what ever you like, something descriptive is recommended. share: This will be the name of the windows system and share (//windowsbox/printsharename) Make sure the share name matches what you configured on the windows box. address of server: put the IP address of the windows server here. User name: put the user name that you setup in samba and on the windows server. password: put the password of the samba user, this needs to be the same on both the FC2 box and the windows box. workgroup: set this to the same workgroup you have configured on the windows box and for samba. The other setting that is critical is getting the correct driver for your printer. There are some good resources on the web to track down print drivers for linux. Check them out. In my case I found that the BJC-7000 driver worked just fine for the Canon i560 printers. Other printers I have at work had specific drivers for them already included so no problems with the other printers I had. Once you have all that set it will prompt you to print a test page. This should print out. On my Redhat 8.0 boxes I had to use the CUPS configuration web pages to get a queue built. Been awhile since I have done that so I don't remember off the top of my head all the steps. But once I built the queue using the CUPS interface I was able to print the test pages and from other applications just fine. FC1 and FC2 made the whole printer setup much easier for me. If you followed all the stuff above and it did not work make sure you double check everything for typos. And make sure the samba/windows users info is matching on both systems. Hope that helps. On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 21:59, Dave Washburn wrote: > On Saturday 24 July 2004 19:04, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 20:48, Dave Washburn wrote: > > > Actually, that's the whole problem: I set CUPS to use the SMB shared > > > printer and it still can't talk to it. I'm ready to try anything short > > > of a sledge hammer at this point. > > > > I posted a message in the last few days with details on how I setup > > linux to windows printing. > > I only just joined today. Can you point me to the message? > > > I believe the real trick is very careful attention to user permissions > > and login data when setting up the printer on both the linux and windows > > side. > > > > Make sure you configure samba to be in the same workgroup and use user > > security. > > Did all that, I've checked the samba configuration, user and login stuff, a > dozen times. Once again, before with RH9, I switched to LPRng, did nothing > whatsoever else, and it took off like the proverbial bat. Fedora isn't even > giving me the option AFTER I installed LPRng. Once I installed it and > uninstalled CUPS, the print system switcher (which I looked at just to see if > LPRng would finally show up) told me I had NO printing system installed. > > > With Red Hat 8.0 I had given up on this also. Once I had it working > > with FC1 I was able to go back and sort out Red Hat 8.0 printing. In > > that case I was unable to the the redhat-config-printer tool, I had to > > use the CUPS interface to setup the print queue. > > > > In FC1 and FC2 I was able use system-config-printer to set everything > > up. > > I've been into that program until it's sick of me. No help. Ditto for the > browser-based CUPS configuration. It still doesn't work. > > -- > Dave Washburn > http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur > Insert clever epigram here...or not -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
