Topic: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop

[snap16]

Have a usb printer installed on smesever 7.4.

Windows XP sees the printer and is able to print, with no problems.

Cannot get the debian machine to print.

Using localhost:631 to configure printer.

Device URI: socket://192.168.2.4

192.168.2.4 is the ip of the server, get this message "recoverable: Network host '192.168.2.4' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."

How do I configure the debian machine to connect to the printer on the smeserver.

Set cups client.conf;
# Servername
ServerName 192.168.2.4

Have read the how to's and still not sure why the error message.

I have read the chapter 13, I think that was the number, and cannot understand how to resolve the problem.

Any assistance is appreciated.

[CharlieBrady]

Cannot get the debian machine to print.

Print using smb or lpr protocols. You are trying ipp, which is not supported by SME.

[David Harper]

Welcome to the forums.

As far as I know the printer is shared out using Samba, so you should tell CUPS to connect to the printer in the format smb://192.168.2.4/printerqueue or similar.

[snap16]

Thanks for the welcome.

smb://192.168.2.4/printerqueue = smb://192.168.2.4/brother

gives this error message

"Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)"

[David Harper]

You'll need to specify a valid username and password in the string.

From memory it goes something like smb://Username:Password@192.168.2.4/brother

[snap16]

"From memory it goes something like smb://Username:Password@192.168.2.4/brother"

Same error message.

I tried to log onto the printer through file manager Konqueror, access denied to share, perhaps the printer is not shared in the server?

Looking the server manager panels, I see no way to set a share.

[David Harper]

It's shared automagically.

OK, just try LPR instead.

[snap16]

in localhost:631

lpd://192.168.2.4/brother

"Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)"


I tried lpr://192.168.2.4/brother and got bad url message

[snap16]

An error occurred while loading smb://192.168.2.4/brother:
The file or folder smb://192.168.2.4/brother does not exist.

But I can use smb to access the share named mitch but not the share named brother, which is what I named the printer when I used the server-manager to install the printer.

[hairybiker]

Just checked on my ubuntu system (this one )
Under device URI:-
I have :

lpd://phoenix/ip4000

Now phoenix is my sme server and ip4000 is the usb printer shared by it.

Works fine on my 2 systems 32/64bit Ubuntu os's and via LPR on my XP virtual system