*Are the attempted test pages showing up in the printer queues at all and
stalled there?*



On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Kevin Broderick <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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]

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