Do you have smbclient installed? Try the command
smbclient -L (the windows machine name)
and you should see a list of what is available to you on the windows
machine, including your HP printer.
Once you see the printer is available, you should be able to select it
in CUPS as a windows printer via SAMBA. Without the necessary SAMBA
stuff, you will be out of luck.
One thing that had me grinding my teeth for a while was figuring out why
I could no longer print to one of the shared printers when we replaced a
computer this summer (going from Windows98 to WindowsXP home edition).
I finally tried changing the device from smb://machine/printer to
smb://guest@machine/printer (of course, I used the machine's name and
printer share name). That got me going again.
scott
William Lindfors wrote:
>I tried using http://localhost:631 to no avail. It is pretty cool web
>interface but I still can not print to my HP 810C printer that is connected
>via USB to my Emachine that is running XP Home Edition. I ran the ESP CUPS
>interface and went thru Internet printing protcol (HTTP) and Internet
>printing protocol (IPP). Could not get it to work. What is the difference
>between the two option? Anyway, here is an example of what I am typing in:
>The version I am running is CUPS v1.1.18
>
>
>For Device URL: http://collegelinux:80/192.168.1.103
>
>Is the hostname in the example suppose to be my Linux laptop or my Emachine
>that has the printer connected?
>
>Is IPP suppose to be the IP address of the Emachine computer?
>
>I have the printer shared out on my emachine so I should be able to print to
>it from my linux laptop.
>
>One last note. On the print test, it did not come up and say that the job
>failed. Looks like it is hanging and just not getting thru. I've had the
>print job get to 89% and just hang.
>
>Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?
>
>
>
>
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