Foxy wrote: > Due to some crash of my laptop I decide to ditch Dapper and switch to > Feisty. This is the first time I decided to install Xubuntu. Before I > usually used Ubuntu with XFCE. > > The installation was fine but I ran into trouble trying to add Windows > samba printer. I used Settings/Printing. The programme properly > identified my shared printer by clicking on it did not add the printer's > address in the upper window (smb:// ...). > > I tried to do it manually by enabling localhost:631 and using cups > interface, but still I cannot do it. I think I have the address wrong > for some reason. I tried to run smbtree: >> ~$ smbtree >> Password: >> WORKGROUP >> \\NECAPTOP necaptop server (Samba, Ubuntu) >> \\NECAPTOP\IPC$ IPC Service (necaptop server >> (Samba, Ubuntu)) >> \\NECAPTOP\etc_nec >> \\NECAPTOP\sveta >> \\NECAPTOP\sasha >> \\NECAPTOP\alex >> \\NECAPTOP\print$ Printer Drivers >> \\AC-PC Al's Uber PC >> \\AC-PC\diskl >> \\AC-PC\L$ Default share >> \\AC-PC\C$ Default share >> \\AC-PC\H$ Default share >> \\AC-PC\ADMIN$ Remote Admin >> \\AC-PC\dx3800 EPSON Stylus DX3800 Series >> \\AC-PC\diskd >> \\AC-PC\print$ Printer Drivers >> \\AC-PC\SharedDocs >> \\AC-PC\D$ Default share >> \\AC-PC\IPC$ Remote IPC >> \\AC-PC\diskh > > So I put smb://WORKGROUP/AK-PC/dx3800, but CUPS shows >> "Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds..."
Maybe the problem is somewhere else i don't know. But can you mount a smb share and use it normally. So we can be sure it is a printer issue? Best regards, Jelle -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
