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Old 07-11-2004, 06:26 AM   #1
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How do I Print using a Windows Printer


I've no problems printing FROM a Windows Box to any number of Linux systems -- but I've got a Windows Box and 2 printers (Epson 1290, Epson 2200) that are in my studio . The photographers will be on the Linux boxes and will want to use these printers FROM linux TO WINDOWS. I.E The WINDOWS box has the printers on it.

The Windows box is running WINDOWS XP PRO.

It's EASY if the printers are on Linux and access is required from Windows -- but I can't switch the printers over to the Linux server. It's not possible for all sorts of NON technical reasons -- believe me I would have done it if I could.

I've got SAMBA up and running and have no problem with FILE SHARING Both ways -- it's just the PRINTING I'm having trouble with.

My Main questions are

1) What should I enter as hostname of Printer Sever
2) Name of remote queue.

The Windows Box is on Workgroup PHOTOSERVER

The Printer share names on Windows are Ep1290 and Ep2000

The Windows computer name is PHOTO1


This should be easy -- but I'm flummexed -- Google has plenty of examples of printing FROM Windows on Linux which is easy or comes up with such things as set your printer host name etc -- and that's the bit I'm having trouble with what IS the host name etc / what do I enter for this field etc.

Thanx -- I'm sure it's a 5 minute fix if only I could find out what these names are.or this field

( It's an entirely Internal Local Network BTW).

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Old 07-11-2004, 07:32 AM   #2
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Found the Answer -- was a bad case of RTFM.

Cheers
 
Old 07-14-2004, 11:23 PM   #3
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What did you find?

What was the answer to your problem? I am having the same issue printing from Mandrake 10.0 Official to a Windows XP Pro box with a HP Deskjet printer hooked to it.
 
Old 07-21-2004, 03:28 PM   #4
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I'm a newbie here, but I'll tell you what I know. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me.

My situation is that I have two HP printers set up on my Windows box. One is a DeskJet 722C, and the other is a PhotoSmart 7760. I have successfully set them both up to print, but I find it an interesting solution.

In my case, the problem was user privilege.

For the host name, you put in the host name you have for the computer acting as the print server. In my case, it was Schade1 (although I enter it in all lowercase).

For the remote queue, you put the Windows share name of the printer. For my 722C, it was DeskJet. For my PhotoSmart, it was hpphotos.

Then I had to specify a workgroup name. For this, I put in schadenet.

Then I had to enter a user and password. Here's where it was weird. I have my own login on my Windows XP box, and my wife has her own login. Even though the printers are set up to allow printing from both logins, I could only connect and print to these printers if I specified my wife's login credentials.

I suspect it's because my wife is usually logged in all the time, whereas my login is usually NOT active (although the account is not disabled). Go figure.

Once I specified this information, I was able to connect and print with no problems.

So, as far as I can tell, in order to print to a SMB printer, you need all five pieces of information - Host name, Remote Queue name (share name), workgroup name, login ID, and password.

Don't know if this helps, but that's my two cents.
 
  


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