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Title: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: snap16 on April 07, 2009, 03:04:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: CharlieBrady on April 07, 2009, 03:16:56 PM
Cannot get the debian machine to print.

Print using smb or lpr protocols. You are trying ipp, which is not supported by SME.
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: David Harper on April 07, 2009, 03:18:00 PM
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.
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: snap16 on April 07, 2009, 03:22:09 PM
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)"
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: David Harper on April 07, 2009, 03:28:04 PM
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
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: snap16 on April 07, 2009, 03:43:40 PM
"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.

Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: David Harper on April 07, 2009, 03:46:31 PM
It's shared automagically.

OK, just try LPR instead.
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: snap16 on April 07, 2009, 03:58:18 PM
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
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: snap16 on April 07, 2009, 04:18:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Usb printer on smeserver seen by XP laptop but not Debian desktop
Post by: hairybiker on April 08, 2009, 08:01:39 PM
Just checked on my ubuntu system (this one :P)
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