cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine [solved]

[flamboyant]

trying to add a new printer through Printer Configuration > New Printer > Windows Printer via SAMBA > Browse. the host is there but not the printer, although smbtree sees it okay. what's wrong?

[Detonate]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Have you shared the printer in XP?

[flamboyant]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Have you shared the printer in XP?

of course. i can use it from Windows on my computer, but not from Kubuntu.

[Detonate]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Is this printer installed on XP on a different computer, or on the same computer? Just because you can use it in XP does not mean it is shared, you have to go to the printer properties in XP and mark the computer as shared. Then once it is shared, open the cups interface in Kubuntu by entering localhost:631 in the location window of a browser and see if you can install it from there instead of using the Kubuntu printer installation.

[flamboyant]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Is this printer installed on XP on a different computer, or on the same computer?

this printer is installed on a different computer.

Just because you can use it in XP does not mean it is shared, you have to go to the printer properties in XP and mark the computer as shared.

yes, i did that.

Then once it is shared, open the cups interface in Kubuntu by entering localhost:631 in the location window of a browser and see if you can install it from there instead of using the Kubuntu printer installation.

yes, i did that too. cups failed to see the printer either.

[Detonate]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Then I think you have a samba problem, and I have not used samba in a very long time, so we need someone else to chime in here.

[flamboyant]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine

Then I think you have a samba problem ...

perhaps, but at the same time it works flawlessly for shared folders in the LAN.

... I have not used samba in a very long time, so we need someone else to chime in here.

thank you for your interest anyway

[flamboyant]

Re: cannot install printer connected to Windows XP machine [solved]

cups failed to see the printer either.

wrong. it sees the printer but installs it as 'local'.