Dear friends, I have been wrestling with this for 3 days now, unsucesfully, and that is why I ask for your help.
I have a network composed of 1 linux server, 1 linux desktop, 2 windowsXP and 1 windows 98. The printer (Epson Stylus C42ux) is connected to the WindowsXp machine. I have Samba and CUPS installed and (apparently) correctly configured at the Linux server (Mandrake 9.1). I am able to access shares in the Linux Server (/home) from the Windows XP machine. Now here comes my problem. I want to be able to allow both the Linux server and the Linux desktop to print to the Windows XP printer. The printer is shared as EPSONSty. Some info: Machine ip WindowsXP 192.168.13.222 LinuxServer 192.168.13.216 I tried to set this up using the CIPS web based configuration utility (localhost:631). I managed to create the printer, and CUPS says it is all good to go. I send a test page and nothing comes out of the printer. Checking the /var/log/cups/error_lo I find: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds... This keeps happening and nothing comes out of the printer. So I started some troubleshooting: smbclient //windowsxp/epsonsty password: **** the response: tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME hmmm.... Checked the /etc/hosts file and it is in there. IT IS the onlyu machine by that name in the network... Now if I try: smblient //192.168.13.222/epsonsty password:*** I get: smb:\> Works! I can "print <file> " and it prints... I am at a loss, it should be simple. Any ideas? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba