I have a Wintendo computer running Windows 2000 Pro. Attached (via usb) is a HP Office Jet 5610 All In One. The Win2K system is dual bootable with openSUSE 10.3.

The printer works fine in either Windows or Linux from that computer.

I also have a laptop running openSUSE 10.3. Using this (http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html) article, I've successfully setup CUPS to print to my HP LJ1320 at work (attached to a Vista machine) as well as to several networked HP LaserJet and Color LaserJet computers. The 1320 is printed to on cups by printing to lpd://10.16.13.7/lj1320.

I tried to do the same with my home system using the same nomenclature for the CUPS queue. I get a connection, but all that seems to happen when I print is the printer moves the ink cartrige, seems to try to advance the paper a bit, then blinks continually. In Windows, I see the print job in the queue but I cannot do anything with it. I cannot delete it and I cannot restart. I basically have to reboot.

Looking around, I see the same issue listed in other places.

https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/22520

I've tried setup the printer using smb:// instead of lpd:// but I get permission denied on the client side. (the user I setup is an admin equivelant)

Ideas?

I had this problem. I fixed it by going to http://www.hp.com and getting the latest hplip driver for Linux. Actually the HP web site points to http://hplip.sourceforge.net so you might as well just go there. Also I'm using CUPS v1.3.7.

Okay, thanks. I was on 2.7.7 and see that both Packman (an opensuse community repository) and sourceforge had 2.8.7. I went ahead and upgraded. I was on CUPS 1.2.12, so upgraded that as well.

UPDATE - I upgraded to CUPS 1.3.7. I downloaded the tar file, compiled, created an RPM and installed. openSUSE balked at it. In fact, my CUPS spooler wouldn't start.

I went ahead and backed down to 1.2.12 and my spooler at least works now. I'll have to figure out how to upgrade CUPS.

The printer still follows the same behavior with 2.8.7 hplip driver.

I had this problem for years and finally got it solved.

I am forced to share my hp officejet 5610xi from a Win2k box, but I was never able to get CUPS to print to it over the network from my linux box. Whenever I would print from the linux box to the smb printer configured in CUPS, the printer would "kick" and start to move the head like it was going to print and then just sit there. I had to restart the Win2k box to clear the printer.

Finally after searching again recently I read to go on the Win2k Printer configuration "Printer Properties" "Ports" tab and Un-select the bidirectional printing check box. Now I can print from Linux fine.

ONE EXCEPTION- I get foomatic errors only when printing the printer test page from the gnome printer management program. I can print test pages when I connect to CUPS directly using the browser to localhost:631 and I can print anything from openoffice or the command line... I can't tell you how long that threw me for!

Anyway- hope it helps.

THANK YOU!!!

That seemed to do the trick. I deselected teh bidirectional printing and got it working.

Oddly enough, though - and I don't know if it is related - the computer seems to freeze today. I reboot Windows and it goes into the check disk mode.

I'll research that next.

Thank you bobbo111. It is the bi-directional setting that killed me for the last 2 days. I did this once before but forgot about it completely. Whew!