Print on Windows from Linux with LDP
 

Hola!

From a Linux-client I try to print on a HP Laserjet 1300 connected in the same LAN to a W2K-machine. I tried to make it work with LDP but after configuring it seems to print but nothing comes out of the printer neither do I find an error...n

I added the Unix printing support on the w2k machine, and configured with the GUI a LDP printer with server-IP of the w2k-machine and its printername.
The Printerdriver is set to Postscript where I found the HP1300 in the list.

Even the test possibility in the GUI gives no error and says the following:
Job 10 queued on 'IPPRINT' by 'root'.

How to solve this printing problem? :confused:

Thanks!

Are you dead set on using LDP to print? I have managed to figure out how to print to a Windows machine using CUPS/SAMBA and I'd be glad to share my experience with you if you'd like.

I would be very interested knowing how you print on a windows machine using samba/ cups. I hope to hear the story!!!

Sorry for the delay. I've found that I needed to enable both the CUPS and SAMBA daemons locally on my laptop (which is Slackware). Then, you need to add an entry to your /etc/cups/printers.conf file ... either by modifying the file directly with a text editor, going through the "add printer" wizard in the KDE Control Center, or in the cups admin page on your local machine (http://localhost:631). Either way, you'll end up with at least this in your printers.conf file. This is an example of a HP LaserJet 4 on my windows network at work:

<DefaultPrinter My_HPLJ4>
Info HP LaserJet 4
Location Front of the office
DeviceURI smb://domain\username:password@DOMAIN/SERVERNAME/HPLJ4
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser tino27
</Printer>

If you'll notice, the important parts are the DeviceURI

smb:// <-- this tells CUPS to channel through SAMBA

Then, then NT domain, username, password combination

domain\username:password

Then the '@' followed by the path to the specific windows computer and printer name. Make sure you get the '\\' and '/' going in the correct direction.

If you don't have an NT domain (just workstations joined together in a group), then the username/password combination must be a local account on the Windows box you are trying to print to (and you can obviously leave out the domain values in the above example).

Good luck.

Thank you, it is working proper now!