*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 329974 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329974
Thanks, I tried the IP address did not make any difference cannot find
printer..The browse doesn't help either, it doesn't "browse " it seems to
want me to enter the location.
My printer selection doesn't show Samba connected printers and I am pretty
sure 8.4 did..
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ed Comer <remocmail-1s...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 329974 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329974
>
> The Motorman - see post above - should cure your problem: "Workaround
> found, but bug remains:
> I used my Windows box IP address instead of Browsing for the printer. This
> permitted me to go to the next steps and created a printer, although it
> didn't work, i.e. the test page didn't print. However, I then clicked a
> change URI button and it presented another opportunity to Browse. This time
> browsing found the Windows printer, correctly changed the path and then the
> test page printed. Screen snapshot is attached.".
>
> --
> Jaunty 9.04 Blind to XP's Shared Network Printer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368273
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>
> Status in “samba” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “system-config-printer” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: smbclient
>
> I am using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.10 e/w all current updates.
> smbclient: Installed: 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3
>
> First let me state that the Windows Networked/Shared printer can be
> utilized just fine by two other Linux computers on mine - (1) a Dell 910
> Netbook running Ubuntu 8.04 and another computer running Xubuntu 8.10. I
> print just fine from these machines, but NOT Jaunty 9.04.
>
> There are a number of posts in GENERAL regarding Jaunty having various
> problems with Networked Printers, but none quite like my problem. I feel
> that this is actually a networking/SAMBA issue, so that is why I posted it
> here.
>
> When I try to add a printer attached to and shared on my Windows XP box
> with System->Administration->Printing, New->Network Printer->Windows Printer
> via SAMBA, Browse - I get right up to where clicking the little gray
> diamonds should reveal a networked printer and Poof the dialog crashes and
> is gone.
>
> Note: Squirrel is the hostname of my Windows XP box.
>
> If I browse Places->Network->Windows Network->MSHOME->SQUIRREL, the Windows
> shares are seen but without a printer. Instead there is a networked folder
> named Print$ which I suspect is the printer being incorrectly recognized. I
> have attached an image of what I see in the browse network window to my XP
> machine.
>
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