Printing to printer on Windoze machine

[Harold Hallikainen]

> 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

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