I understand there is a slight overhead from bringing in a couple gnome-libs (though I think it is only about 3 and they don't seem to weigh heavy on my system unless I am using the application) but I recommend the use of gnome's cups manager, adding printers (networked or otherwise) has been so much easier since I installed and started using that application on my xubuntu machine at work.
.... just a thought. -Adam On 3/4/07, Matías Szeftel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Foxy escribió: > 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..." >> A long chance but, is this a typo? smb://WORKGROUP/AK-PC/dx3800 . Shound't it be: smb://WORKGROUP/AC-PC/dx3800? (note the C for the K) __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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