Printing via SAMBA to Windows box

1337_penguin · 12-28-2005, 04:53 PM

Hi

I am trying to configure my box (running Slackware 10.0 - hostname: googolplex) to print via SAMBA to a Lexmark X5100 (share name: lexmark) which is connected to a Windows XP box (hostname: decentinator; both on 'inators' workgroup). SAMBA is configured and running and I am able to view shares from either machine on the other one, and when attempting to configure printing via SWAT, 'lexmark' showed up in the list from /etc/printcap

I followed these instructions, to no avail. I then tried configuring CUPS via the web-based interface, with the following settings:

Code:

Name: lexmark
Location: smb://decentinator/lexmark
Device: Windows printer via SAMBA
Device URI: smb://decentinator/lexmark

but whenever I try to print, I get an error along the lines of
this.

A step-by-step guide to configuring this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

1337_penguin

foo_bar_foo · 12-28-2005, 11:40 PM

i think those first instructions are too old (9 years old)
best use cups
is cups running ?
show output from
ps -C cupsd
show output from
ps -C lpd
you can't run LPRng printserver and cupsd at the same time -- they get in an argument. But you need to run one or the other (start at boot ?).

that error message is saying no print server is accepting the connection.

Murdock1979 · 12-28-2005, 11:43 PM

Type localhost:631 in Firefox to see if you have cups

1337_penguin · 12-29-2005, 06:53 AM

Code:

[ownage@googolplex ~]$ ps -C cupsd
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
  570 ?        00:00:01 cupsd
[ownage@googolplex ~]$ ps -C lpd
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
[ownage@googolplex ~]$

Cupsd is running, and lpd isn't. Whilst configuring it via localhost:631, with the settings described in my previous post, I noticed that the specific model wasn't listed, but I read on http://linuxprinting.org that apparently the Z55 drivers are compatible.

Here are the contents of my /etc/printcap:

Code:

# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
LEXMARK|LEXMARK:rm=googolplex:rp=LEXMARK:

1337_penguin

Murdock1979 · 01-11-2006, 12:53 PM

It seems you are doing everything right...perhaps it is a firewall problem.

Keep up updated,
Murdock

foo_bar_foo · 01-11-2006, 03:08 PM

the confusing thing is
cannot open connection to "localhost"
like it's a loopback problem possibly with the name localhost itself
show us
/etc/hosts

1337_penguin · 01-12-2006, 04:52 PM

Hi

I've managed to solve the 'connection refused' problem, it turned out that, although the CUPS daemon was running, the KDE printing thing was configured to use lpr (which wasn't, hence the error).

I did manage to get a response from the printer, using the Z53 driver (ie. it clunked, then stopped and the percentage counter on the Lexmark driver on my Windows box crept up to 100%) The fact that it responds seems to suggest a driver issue, however I haven't got round to installing RPM on my system (as Lexmark only seem to provide the drivers as RPM binaries!)

In the meantime I'm currently using an Epson Stylus Colour 640 which I had laying around, which seems to work.

1337_penguin

Murdock1979 · 01-13-2006, 03:55 AM

try rpm2tgz

convert rpms to tgz format

1337_penguin · 01-14-2006, 09:27 AM

I made the tarballs with rpm2tgz and installed them. I then modified the printer 'LEXMARK', keeping the same setting but just changing the driver to Lexmark Z55. When I try to print, there are no errors, but the KDE print manager just shows the job as 'processing' indefinitely and the job never appears on my Windows box.

1337_penguin

1337_penguin · 01-14-2006, 09:38 AM

Update: I've just checked the CUPS web admin thing and under the status it says "Cannot process raster"

1337_penguin

1337_penguin · 01-14-2006, 11:50 AM

I found on another forum that I needed to install Ghostscript, I downloaded and compiled it. I then did

Code:

ps -C gs

and found it was already running (possibly an old version?), so I killed it and then did

Code:

# /usr/bin/gs

to get it running again, but got the following error:

Code:

[root@googolplex ~]# /usr/bin/gs
ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-07-12)
Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Cannot open X display `(null)'.
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
[root@googolplex ~]#

1337_penguin