Terry Liittschwager wrote:
On Wed 14 Dec 2005 18:56, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
You can use a printer name of smb://JEAN/HPDESKJET for Device URI:
The network printer detection does not work as well as it should.
Many thanks for the info immediately above. It enabled me to get
farther. MCC > Hardware > Set up . . . said that it finished normally,
and when I asked for the printing of a test page, it said that it had
been sent and was printing. However, it never printed. I also tried
printing from Kwrite just to make sure. Again, it says it's done it,
but it's never received at the printer. I've also tried removing the
printer and reconfiguring it, but the result is always the same.
My guess is that the system think may think that the printer is on
E5200, the Linux machine, because MCC > Hardware > Set up . . .
shows under the "Configured on this machine" tab rather than under the
"Configured on other machines" tab, this in spite of the fact that when
I did the Add Printer I had given the "Configured on other machines"
tab the focus. In fact, it always winds up "on this machine"
regardless of which tab has the focus when I do the Add Printer. I've
gone through the Add Printer thing at least a dozen times trying
different things.
In support of the idea that it thinkg the printer is on this machine, if
I go to Konsole and do "smbclient //JEAN/HPDESKJET" then "queue" it
shows nothing. However, if I then do print <filename>, the file is
delivered to the printer, although it comes out as garage as it was
a .doc file I was using for the test.
I also used Konqueror to look at /var/lib/samba/printers and there's
nothing there other than some subfolders.
I can, of course, print by putting a file where either LAPTOP or JEAN
can see it.
Any thoughts anyone might have will be greatly appreciated. Also any
pointers as to how I might accomplish a working setup via the command
line will be appreciated. I'm beginning to trust the command line more
than the GUI.
Terry
To manage printers, I like to point a web browser at:
http://localhost:631/
From there, you can manage CUPS. It is how I normaly add printers.
You can also check the status of printers, delete waiting print
jobs, etc. When it asks for a user and password, give it root and
root's password.
Mikkel
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