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10-09-2004, 12:57 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England, United kingdom
Distribution: Fedora 10 + Cent OS 5.3
Posts: 65
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Print server
Hi, i have a printer shared on my fedora core 2 server using samba but whenever i try to print to it from windows i just get "Access denied, unable to connect" and if i try and print a test page i just get a lot of network activity but nothing ever comes even tho i can print from the server fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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10-09-2004, 01:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Savannah, GA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mythbuntu, ClarkConnect
Posts: 1,154
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start with:
smbclient -L <your IP> -U <your windows username>
don't know your IP? run /sbin/ifconfig as root, and look for 'inet addr'
now, i'm assuming you'll get some sort of invalid login response. but let me know, and we'll go from there
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10-09-2004, 01:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England, United kingdom
Distribution: Fedora 10 + Cent OS 5.3
Posts: 65
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hmmm... im presuming this means something to you cos its meaning nothing to me...
Quote:
[root@linux ian]# smbclient -L 192.168.0.3 -U ian
Unknown parameter encountered: "revalidate"
Ignoring unknown parameter "revalidate"
Password:
Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7-2.FC2]
Sharename - Type - Comment
--------- ---- -------
CD_images - Disk
Documents - Disk
Downloads - Disk
Drivers - Disk
Mail - Disk
Server - Disk
IPC$ - IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
ADMIN$ - IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
usblp0 - Printer usblp0
Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7-2.FC2]
Server Comment
--------- -------
IANLAPTOP
LINUX Samba Server
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
MSHOME IANLAPTOP
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10-09-2004, 04:32 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: NJ
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 104
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This could be considerd a cheap way out but a good way to get printing amongst a mixed win and linux network would be to buy a printserver box. I bought a COMP USA brand print server box (took a chance on a cheap store brand cause it was only 30$!!). This will let you take a regular usb or parallel printer and convert it to a CAT5 interface (basically). Now just configure CUPS to print to the IP (or host name) that the printer is located and configure windows to print to the network printer. It was great how it worked out. If you need more details on the configurations for this setup I can post em here.
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10-09-2004, 05:38 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England, United kingdom
Distribution: Fedora 10 + Cent OS 5.3
Posts: 65
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yeah, i eventually gave up and have ordered a print server
got a usb print server with a 4 port switch built in it for £40 which isnt too bad, but its the cheapest usb one i could find.
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