I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit.
I have a similar setup with Win 98 SE clients using an HP 5550 on a Linux/Samba setup. (For what it's worth, I'm using SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.111, KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.0.2a-5.1)
1. Set up your printer under Linux using CUPS, which you seem to have done. The presence or absence of KDE should be immaterial. I presume that the printer runs OK locally.
2. Make sure Samba is set up with you printer as a share. The share section of your configuration should look something like this:
These first two items were generated at install time. I haven't touched them in any way. I don't even know if they are both needed:
[printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp create mask = 0600 printable = yes browseable = no
[print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775
This is my printer:
[printer] comment = HP-5550 path = /var/tmp read only = No create mask = 0600 guest ok = yes printable = yes printer name = printer oplocks = No
3. You really need to ensure that your Win client "sees" the Linux machine in its workgroup along with whatever you have defined as sharable. There are some "funny" differences between Win 2000 and Win 98 clients, which I won't go into here. There is NO need to start kprinter from anywhere; as far as I can see, Samba sends everything to CUPS. It could be that kprinter is actually interfering.
And since we're on Linux/Win/Samba, does anyone know wky on my rig, SWAT doesn't want to come up: "The connection was refused while ateempting to contact 127.0.0.1:901". Other things like 127.0.0.1:631 (CUPS) come up OK. (It's just a niusance; there are other ways of modifying samba.conf, not the least of which is ye goode olde text editor.)
I hope that helps.
Daniel
David Harel wrote:
I really don't understand your sarcasm. I guess you are making a fool of me but I still didn't get it.
Yet I do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly?
Omer Zak wrote:
Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents in the form of the FSF and RMS (who had his own printer driver troubles).
(I just could not resist saying this, as the GNU and GPL started from a problem a stubborn guy had with a printer driver. :-) )
David Harel wrote:
Greetings,
I defined a remote printer on an MS W2000 using samba. The printer is an Epson Stylus C43.
When I try to print the test page I get on the terminal (I started kprinter manually from a shell) the following error message:
kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain
Of course the printout is jammed. What do you think is the problem?
My machine is:
HP Omnibook 6000 running gentoo with kernel 2.4.26-gentoo-r9, KDE 3.3.0 and cups 1.1.20-r3
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