printing to a windows_printserver
 

I have been banging my head for many hours trying to print from my gentoo box to my windows Box. I have been trying both using smb protocal, and also windows built in printer shareing for unix boxes.

My question. Have any of you had luck using lpd device uri's(windows printer sharing for unix) , example, lpd://192.168.0.2/HPLaserJ to print from linux to windows? If so , do you have any suggestions.


edit added later//

I have followed many cups guides very carfully, I will test the printer locally and see if it will print.

for some reason on my hp usb printer connected to windows i had to uncheck
"enable bidirectional support" on the ports tab in the windows properties dialog before samba could print to it. -- it took a long time before i figured that one out.

thanks for the suggestion. I checked to see if it worked if I enabled bidirectional support, but the setting would not stay, it automatically reverted back to disable bidirectional support.


I got it to work using smb protacol , by using my windows login name. I was originally trying to use the guest account.

I'm having the same/similar problem with printing to a windows network printer.
I open the "add printer wizard" and select SMB shared printer (Windows), I then get a question about "User Identification" and I'm not really sure which to select:

Anonymous, Guest account or Normal account.
Then what username and password are we talking about in the last option?

The next page works like a charm using the Scan option, (once I had gone to the relevant PC and changed its name to have no spaces and then been to all the PC's that used that printer and changed their configuration!!)

Then we go the the Printer Model Selection. Should I use raw here, as do my Windows PCs, or should I select the printer type. I have tried both.

On to the Printer Test page, I knew it was going too well, and I press Test. Now I have to enter a Username and password. I have tried them all, including the windows logon. I have even tried default/default as sometimes needed for Windows to Linux logons.

Do you have any ideas?
Should I also post this elsewhere?

Best Regards, Ross