Dear member, I am having a problem on some line down the configuration of CUPS which is supposed to enable me print on the Windows Printer. Being the only person with a linux machine in office, I have always had to share ma staff so as to print, I felt it was time to style up but am failing to style up. I have been using: 1) http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/printing_to_windows.html and 2) http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html for the configuration but at the same instance I have heard the same problem. I dont know why but I would like to get help. Using the first link, I run smbclient -L MNICK -U , where MNICK is the Windows Machine having the printer shared. The results from this command are as follows:
Domain=[MNICK] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- spool Disk IPC$ IPC Remote IPC D$ Disk Default share print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk HPLaserJ Printer HP LaserJet P2015 Series PCL 6 mount Disk ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin RESERCHSTUDY Disk C$ Disk Default share Domain=[MNICK] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment --------- ------- Workgroup Master --------- ------- Domain=[MNICK] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- spool Disk IPC$ IPC Remote IPC D$ Disk Default share print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk HPLaserJ Printer HP LaserJet P2015 Series PCL 6 mount Disk ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin RESERCHSTUDY Disk C$ Disk Default share Domain=[MNICK] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment --------- ------- Workgroup Master --------- ------- >From the results above, it shows that HPLaserJ is the printer shared by the windows machine. Moving down as the instructions state, I verified that CUPS was installed and configured with smb backend with the command: ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb which gave me the following results: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-08-17 08:54 /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb -> ../../../bin/smbspool Which showed me that smb backend was configured with CUPS, when I went down the lines, /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Printer -v smb://administra...@mnick/HPLaserJ -P /root/HPLaserJ.ppd gave me some thing that is still bothering me! (lpadmin: No such file or directory) At first I thought may be samba was not properly installed, and I reinstalled it with out an error and got the same problem. Sharing files with the stated windows machine has always been smooth, which makes me wonder, what mistake I have made to stop me from moving one. I shall be happy if some one comes to ma rescue. Thank you. Seat of Wisdom .............Pray for us Cause of our Joy ...........Pray for us ................................................... Mayengo Thomas Kizito +256-712-929564/ +256-782-062708
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