*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]
