Check out your /etc/cups/printers.conf
<DefaultPrinter lp>
Info YourPrinter
Location
DeviceURI smb://winusername:winpassword@WinPrintServer/WinPrinter
The win* entries in DeviceURI should contain your Windows networking
username, password, printserver and printer name.
Also, it's likely you'll need to put your workgroup name in /etc/smb.conf,
and perhaps WINS server as well.
eg:
workgroup = WINDOWSFIENDS
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
wins server = 192.168.66.6
I've been using Mandrake with this setup on both 7.2 and 8.0. Before
updating 7.2 to latest update packages, I seem to recall an issue because
there is a space in the printer name I use. But, it has worked ever
since.
-pete
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, WORLOK wrote:
> I used to be happy with Redhat Printtool and lpr.
>
> I used to be able to connect to my dept printer, which is running off an
> NT/W2K domain PDC.
>
> Since installing Mandrake 7.2, this CUPS thing just won't communicate.
>
> It's weird since from the same machine I can mount Windows shares using
> mount -t smbfs no problem.
>
> It doesn't matter what driver I use either, HP LJ 4, Postscript generic.
>
> It seems the print job never gets to the printer, but no errors are
> issued.
>
> Under Redhat 6.x I was able to send print jobs to this printer from my
> linux box. Win2k running under my VMWARE VM sends jobs fine, from the
> same physical machine. Go figure.
>
> What bonheaded thing am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tom
>
