printing with cups on a samba shared windows printer

Alexander Futasz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I emerged samba and cups without any problems, but i got problems with
setting up cups to use the windows printer. I got the appropiate ppd
file from the web and started up cupsd to add the printer via the
webinterface. And that is where the trouble starts: the Gentoo printing
howto says for the name of the printer i should use the same name i used
when executing foomatic. Well i didnt use foomatic, since i downloaded
the ppd from the web. So i assumed 'printer' as name. Also what would i
have to enter for the location field? i tried
smb://user:passwd@server/share. the webinterface then asks for 'Device
URI' and again i tried smb://user:passwd@server/share. The webinterface
suggests everything went fine and says the printer is idle, accepting
jobs, but when i try to print a testpage it gets canceled right away.

i also tried if my samba works and successfully mounted some fileshares
on the server, so i guess its just a problem of finding the proper
cups settings for the printer.

I use Gentoo 1.2. The printer is a Fujitsu PrintPartner 10V.

Any ideas?

A HOWTO-use-windows-printer-with-CUPS would also be nice. I didn't had
any luck finding one.

-alex
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