printing with cups on a samba shared windows printer
Alexander Futasz <[email protected]>
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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