UBUNTU Cant Print on the network

Ctrl+Alt+Del · 10-04-2006, 10:52 AM

Iam not familia with UBUNTU, but iam using a network runing XP,UBUNTU and FEDORA, but i foud ubuntu very interesting.

My problem is , one of the machines connect to my LAN cant print directly to the printer like what other machines do?

The second one is i have another point wich does not access our workgroup.

How can i gou about this problem, i have only two weeks working with these linux systemy. im prepaRED TO WORK HARD

camorri · 10-04-2006, 12:51 PM

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My problem is , one of the machines connect to my LAN cant print directly to the printer like what other machines do?

I'm not sure what your question is. You have three machines, WinXP, a Ubuntu machine and a Fedora machine. What machine is the printer attached, or is it a network printer? What systems work and which machine doesn't work.

Please also give us some idea of what software you have configured to get any of this working.

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The second one is i have another point wich does not access our workgroup.

Are you saying you have another system besides WinXP, Ubuntu and Fedora? or is it one of these that can not access the workgroup?

Ctrl+Alt+Del · 10-05-2006, 04:42 AM

Three machines are using UBUNTU,One Using Fedora and the last one using WIN XP. My printer is attached to the one with XP,

Second Problem:

One of the the machines with UBUNTU, is the one that doesnt access the workgrup

Ctrl+Alt+Del · 10-05-2006, 04:44 AM

Yes it is a network printer

camorri · 10-05-2006, 10:05 AM

Let me clarify some things. Please correct any thing you think is wrong.

You have 3 Ubuntu machines, one Fedora machine and a WinXP machine with a printer attached. The printer you are trying to share to all other machines using windoze networking. BTW, a shared printer, to me is not a network printer. I define a network printer as a machine with its own nic, IP address and connected to the lan directly.

We need to determine if this is a IP issue, or a samba configuration problem. To find out if you have IP connectivity between the system that doesn't see the shares and the WinXP machine, open a konsole and try pinging the XP system. It will look like this:

Code:

ping 192.168.1.22
PING 192.168.1.22 (192.168.1.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.22: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.740 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.22: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.638 ms

--- 192.168.1.22 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.638/0.689/0.740/0.051 ms

The first line is the ping command I entered. The next lines are the system at ip addr 192.168.1.22 responing. The last part are the statistics of the test. This is a successsful one.

If you see 100% packet loss, then it didn't work. We would need to fix that first. Post back the results, and we'll go from there.