Shared printer problem
 

Hi all... I have a shared printer on my W2K box. I am trying to connect to it from my Linux box. I see the printer fine. When I do the printer setup I pick the right printer and try to do a test. It comes up with a Username and Password box. I have used every username and password that has Admin rights to that windows box and every time login fails. It continues to pop up the Username and password box. I have even used the Admin username and password on my linux box and still no go.

Has anyone had this same problem and if so how did you fix it. I worked on it all night and still could not figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

After reading .I added a samba user and I still get a Username and Password screen that denies me. No idea what is going on?

:confused:

did you try with: user: root
password: -your-linux-root-password-

Yep, still a no go. There has to be a reason for this, but I have no idea why

I think your problem may exist in users. I believe you need three accounts, a linux user, and a samba user, on the linux side, and a user account on the windows machine, all with the same name and password. Hope that helps.
good luck.

I will try at tomorrow and let you know if that was it. Thanks for your input

Hi , I tried that and still a no go. Gives me the same thing again. This does not make sense

What does smbclient -L windows machine name return? What printer do you have?
good luck.

Here is the smbclient info..

Domain=[AMDMHZ] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7-1.1-SUSE]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
homes Disk Home Directories
profiles Disk Network Profiles Service
users Disk All users
groups Disk All groups
pdf Printer PDF creator
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
AMDMHZ_STUFF Disk /home/amdmhz/stuff
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.7-1.1-SUSE)
ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.7-1.1-SUSE)
HP Printer HP
Hpphotos Printer Hpphotos
HpPrinter Printer HpPrinter
Domain=[AMDMHZ] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7-1.1-SUSE]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
SUSE AMDMHZ
WORKGROUP ROBBINS


The printer is am HP Photosmart 7660 printer.

Sorry that I wasn't more clear, I meant the listings from the windows machine. Have you seen this?\

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...ing_to_windows

good luck.

Yep, I read that before I posted here. It was very helpful and it helped me get links to the printers, but everytime I try to print it pops up that username and password box. It is one of the most pathetic problems I have seen. I wanted to prove this point by installing a Knoppix 3.6 on another system. Within Knoppix I setup the networked printer that is on the Win98 box and wow, I could print with Knoppix without a popup box.

Now, my question is.... What in the hell is Suse's problem when it comes to networked printers. This pisses me off. I would hate to have to switch from Suse over this, but I really like it, but if I have to physically have a printer hooked to my linux box, what is the point. Hmmm

Peacedog, thanks for all your help so far.

Here is something I googled up.

http://linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Print...HAT-COMES-WITH

It's the fourth bullet down. Hope it helps.
good luck.

I'm running Mandrake 10, and when the computer is in 98, it behaves, but 2000 chucks a wobbly. It just doesn't want to do it, I get the user name and password thing too. But... 98 works.

titanium_geek

Peacedog,

Sadly, that didn't work either... The apsfilterrc file did not exist. I think I have ran out of options. :mad:

Is apsfilter installed? Did you get any errors from lprsetup?