So I've got an almost-working Samba/CUPS printing setup, and I'm wondering if anyone else has run into the same issue. Point-and-Print works fine under Windows 7, and I think WIndows Vista. Point-and-print *almost* works under Windows XP; the clients will download the drivers (with a warning about software installation if not domain members, without any dialog boxes for domain members).
Hoewver, printing doesn't work. If I try to print a test page from XP to one printer, I get "Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print troubleshooter for assistance?" with no errors in the system or application logs on the client, and no obvious errors in the server logs (nothing useful shows up at log level 1, and log level 3 provides a lot of detail with nothing obviously wrong). To the other printer from domain machines, I get "Test page failed to print. Would you like to view the print troubleshooter for assistance? Operation could not be completed." Again, nothing apparent in the system or application logs on the client or anything on the server. Both printers give "Test page failed to print..." without the "Operation could not be completed" on the non-domain XP client (running as an admin user, which may be the difference). Any thoughts? I've been googling for hours and have yet to find this scenario, or any way to get useful error messages, let alone fix the problem. (Printing works fine from Windows 7 clients and from OS X via the same SMB connection with the same username, so the queue seems to work fine.) Kevin Broderick [email protected]
