Hi There,

I just migrated my laptop to Slackware 13.37, all is good with exception of one thing. I have a Vista Tower that has an HP 1315xi All In One Printer connected to it, I have folder shares on the Vista Tower as well, I can see and access all folders, but the printer does not show up as a shared printer. And yes the printer is shared, always has been, so 4 other systems can print. Mind you those systems are all Windows based systems. I should also mention, the Vista Tower sees the Laptop and can access all the folder shares on it.

I have tried a number of registry hacks on Vista only to come up empty : (

Any ideas?

The hplip package should be able to detect and install your printer from the print server/shared PC.

Check your share path which can be something like \\MAINHOME-PC\SHARES\HP1315XI and see if hplip's HP-Toolbox can find it. HP-Toolbox will have to be ran from a user account, not root, or try hp-setup if under root.

HPLIP's Toolbox does not find the printer....the path is straight forward:

\\homeoffice\server\hppsc1310

Homeoffice is the workgroup name, the computer name is server, and of course the printer name is as you see above. I have tried installing the printer via CUPS as well....I'm sure it's a driver problem because if I use the IP address as part of the path the printer responds like it's going to print, and the laptop thinks the print job was completed. The Vista Tower has print jobs backed up, and nothing prints.

Thanks for your input.

That's highly strange. I have a similar hook up with my OfficeJet 5610v and it should work.

Have you checked the Print Spooler to see if there are any outstanding errors with the print jobs?

yep, it's clear....I checked that the 1st time : )

By chance do you have the UNIX Printing support package installed on Windows (it's under the Add/Remove Programs program for extra installed programs)?

No, I did turn on LPD/LPR in the Turn Windows features on or off, so I could try that protocol to get printing to work. But that failed too : (

The really dumb thing about this problem is....if I run the command at the CLI smbclient -L //server

I can see the printer, but Dolphin doesn't show the printer when I look for shares...and CUPS doesn't see the printer, nor does the HP-SERVER...this is very puzzling : )

Try setting up Samba for client and see if it can detect and use the Printer share.

I connected the printer to the Slackware laptop, shared the printer, and Vista was able to see it and use it...but when on the Vista machine....can't see it or use...so it's Vista centric to me.

Windows Vista was known to have a lot of issues with certain stuff, but I've never heard of it having issues with shared devices like printers until now. Then again I do have Windows 7 for my setup so that could have been a fixed feature between the revisions of the OS.

I'm fairly certain this is a Windows 7 feature, but do you have the Printer setup or linked in the Public Shares like the files on the Vista machine?

Yes, all other machines (4 of them) see and can use the printer....just this Linux laptop does not see it or find it. I had the same problem with Ubuntu on this laptop...maybe a another Distro like Centos or fedora might have better luck.

Chances are if one has an issue, other might as well.

I found this a while ago online, and it seems like a good read up on how to setup CUPS to work with a Windows Print Server.

http://www.softwareshelf.com/news/pr...int_Server.pdf

I also found this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...server-296017/

Thanks, I followed the instructions and everything looked like it was working....except....the print job just sat in queue on the Vista Printer share....didn't print, it just sat there...no error....just said it was printing but nothing was happening.

Interesting I must say....I'm considering installed Centos 6.3 just to see what happens there : (

Thanks so much for your help and input...that's what the forums are for, but not many jumped in on this one : )

Hi Again,

I have attached a pic of what the Vista Machine looks like after I send a print job to the printer from my Slackware Laptop. As you can see, it gets the print job, but it just sits there...it doesn't print.

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