Is there a guide anywhere that helps set up CUPS printing using SMB printers?

Royle · 02-20-2005, 02:25 PM

I want to print from my debian computer and print to my printer connected to my Windows machine. These machines are shared with samba. Does anyone know of a guide I can read that shows me how to do this the debian way? Thanks in advance for your help.

swashbuckler · 02-20-2005, 04:02 PM

I configured my Debian to print from a windows printer using the KDE print manager tool. Alternately you can use the CUPS web based print manager http://localhost:631/admin.

Try typing smbclient -L //computername
first to see if the printer is listed as one of the shares on the windows computer.

May also help to check out the cups documentation
http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#8_9

Also what version of Debian are you running??

Royle · 02-20-2005, 04:32 PM

I have it configured, but I'm getting errors. I'm going to post a thread about it.