Printing to printer on Windoze machine

[Harold Hallikainen]

> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>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
>


Thanks! I think that's the "wrong end" of the system. As I understand it,
the client would let the Win98 machine print to an IPP printer. I'd like
something (a server?) that allows a printer on the Windows machine to be
printed to by other IPP clients on the network (or get my smb printing to
work!).

Thanks for the offer!

Harold


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