Help printing to a Windows XP PC.

Royle · 07-30-2005, 08:28 AM

Alright, I am having a lot of trouble with this. I'm trying to get my linux pc to print to my Windows XP pc. The problem is, I'm getting an error at the cups web interfacing saying

Code:

Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Here is my smb.conf

Code:

 [My Documents]
        path = /home/My Documents

[global]
        workgroup = HOME
        os level = 20
        load printers = yes
        printing = cups
        printcap name = cups

[Dad]
        path = /share/Dad

And here is my printers.conf

Code:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Sat Jul 30 10:50:26 2005
<DefaultPrinter LJ>
Info
Location HOME
DeviceURI smb://mike:*****@home/dave/LJ
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

Can someone help me with this? Any help is greatly appriciated.

Jerre Cope · 08-02-2005, 12:02 AM

I would recommend using lpr on your XP box to share the printer, rather than smb.

On your Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup selection, find printer services and add the unix tcp printer services (or some similar name)

Next, just set cups to print lpr

It just figuring out which of the 42 ways XP is authenticating.