Printing to printer on Windoze machine

[Karl Pearson]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:

>>>On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:41:39AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>The next, in my long list of projects, is to be able to print from
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>>>>>>
>>>>my
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>FC4
>>>>>>laptop to a Xerox 950 printer on a Windoze ME machine on the
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>network.
>>>>I
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>set it up to emulate a Postscript printer following the instructions
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>at
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/heretrythis/hp3100/psemu9x.html . I am
>>>>>>able
>>>>>>to print to it as an Apple something or another from my wife's
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>Windoze
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>ME
>>>>>>laptop on the network, so it appears to be properly emulating
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>postscript
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>and being shared.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On my laptop, I go to http://localhost:631/ and try to set up the
>>>>>>printer.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>Do I recall correctly that that is the web interface to CUPS admin?
>>>>>If so, drop it like a hot potato.  I tried to use it when changed
>>>>>printers and never got the printer to print right.  I even lodged a
>>>>>bug report on CUPS.  Then I used "system-config-printer" to set it up
>>>>>and all became sweetness and light.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>I give the URI (which is where I think the problem is) as
>>>>>>smb://192.168.1.5/psemu where psemu is what the printer is named on
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>the
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>Windoze machine (and how it shows up on my wife's laptop). When I
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>try
>>>>to
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>>>>
>>>>>>print to it, I get "ERROR: Connection failed with error
>>>>>>NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Finally, if I use Konqueror, I CAN see the shared directories and
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>files
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>>at
>>>>>>smb://192.168.1.5 .
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So... what am I doing wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>THANKS!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Harold
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>--
>>>>>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>OK, I'll give that a try! Does the URI for the printer look right? Or
>>>>is
>>>>there something more, perhaps, that needs to go between the IP address
>>>>and
>>>>the printer name (psemu)?
>>>>
>>>>THANKS!
>>>>
>>>>Harold
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>>>>
>>>I don't know about using the URI.  In system-config-printer, you fill
>>>in separate boxes for the printer name, hostname or IP address, and
>>>workgroup name.  I just tested it by configuring to print to my wife's
>>>Epson printer hooked up to her XP box.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hmmm. Nothing is ever simple. The system-config-printer help says it'll
>>scan the network and find shared printers. It didn't. My wife's Windoze ME
>>did. I then put in the Workgroup (HomeNet). For server, I tried Sony (the
>>name of the machine), 192.168.1.5 (its IP address), and smb://192.168.1.5.
>>For share, I used PSEMU (which is what the share is set to, and my wife's
>>Windoze machine finds it under that name). For username, I tried "harold"
>>since I log into the desktop with the printer with that name, and as
>>guest, as suggested in the help file. I set the password that worked on my
>>wife's laptop. So far, nothing works. The dialog box keeps coming back.
>>
>>I'll plug this machine into the network at work tomorrow and see if it
>>finds anything there. Any more ideas?
>>
>>THANKS!
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>Still fighting this! I find it interesting that Konqueror can find the
>shared files on the WinME machine, but printer config cannot find the
>shared printer, that my wife's WinME machine can find. I'm sure eventually
>I'll get printing through smb working (with your help!). Another
>possibility I'm wondering about it IPP. I wonder if there's an IPP
>interface (server?) that would run on WinME. It would watch the
>appropriate port and send stuff to the printer.
>
>THANKS!
>
>Harold
>
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Hi Harold

I found a TCP/IP client for Win98 that allows printing to an LPR/LPD 
printer's IP address. I don't know if that will help, but if so, let me 
know and I could email it to you privately.

Karl

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