I'm about 95% sure that the samba -> CUPS connection is fine, as that should be a problem for all clients if it was wrong.
I have gone through the docs both on the samba site and elsewhere as best I could, and all steps except for actually printing seem to work (the point-and-print driver download does work on WindowsXP, or at least seems to; I don't know that the drivers are getting installed *correctly*, but they are getting installed). On 23 Feb 2011, at 9:27 PM, David Hardy wrote: > OK, that eliminates one possibility; it seems like the problem may lie > somewhere in the config setup between XP, Samba and CUPS. I didn't look > real hard and you may have already seen this, but here's one possibility: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Sharing_a_printer_to_Windows_XP_clients_with_Samba_and_Cups > > <http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Sharing_a_printer_to_Windows_XP_clients_with_Samba_and_Cups> > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Kevin Broderick > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There is no evidence of the test pages making it into the print queue—they >> don't show up in the queue from the clients, nor do they show up in the cups >> job list. >> >> (and printing works fine from all clients I've tried *except for* Windows >> XP...which, of course, is the OS on the majority of our company-owned >> machines). >> >> On 23 Feb 2011, at 8:52 PM, David Hardy wrote: >> >>> *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] >> >> Kevin Broderick >> [email protected] >> Kevin Broderick [email protected]
