I've just set up a new SuSe/Novell 9.1 machine, and am trying to configure an HP DeskJet printer using KDE Print Manager Wizard. I have only 2 users set up: myself, and root. I can browse the network and find the printer no problem (it's on another Linux box, configured as an SMB share). I am able to print to this printer from Windows boxes on the network.

The problem seems to be authentication, since I receive the following error message from the KDE Control module at the end of the Wizard process:

Unable to create printer. Error message received from manager:
You are not authorized to access the requested resource.

A first username/password prompt occurs early in the Wizard, right after I select "SMB Shared printer (Windows)" as the type of printer. The next screen, "User Identification," offers 3 choices for "type of access": Anonymous, Guest, and Normal (username/password fields offered). It does not seem to matter what is entered here (although it seems logical to me to use the Normal access method, and to supply credentials that will authenticate to the Linux machine to which the printer is physically attached).

On the Printer Test page, if I click the Test button, I almost always get the following error message: "Unable to create temporary printer."

On the Users Access Settings page in the Wizard, you are prompted to "define here a group of allowed/denied users for this printer. I have tried leaving this blank, or entering my username, and/or root, and or Users (name of only group at present on this machine) -- all with no seeming difference in the final outcome.

Have you tried accessing the printer from the command line.

From the command line in root on my slackware box "abit" is my Windows box and "epson" the shared printer. I can

smbclient //abit/epson -U guest

It invites me to type a password in this case there isn't one so I just hit <Return> it should then gives the following prompt

smb: \>

at this prompt I type

print /root/.bash_profile


the .bash_profile is a small text file that exists in my root folder. The print command sends the file to the printer whose share name on the XP box is called epson which then gets printed.

at the next smb: />

type quit or exit.