On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:17:00PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:27:02PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > | Main computer is Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel connected through a Linksys > | Wireless Point Router to a DSL modem. Printer is HP Deskjet 940c > | installed with CUPS. KDE System print manager says its URI is > | ipp://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. (Phoenix has nothing to do with software > | of that name; I named the computer Phoenix because I have rebuilt it so > | many times.) > | > | Laptop (my grandson's, not mine, with his homework paper) is an IBM > | Thinkpad, Windows XP with an Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter. Windows XP > | Add Printer cannot find the Phoenix printer though it has no trouble > | connecting to the internet through the Router. > | > | If I reboot the main computer to Windows 98 (which I hate to do) the > | laptop can find the printer. How can I persuade it to find the Debian > | system? > > AFAIK WinXP doesn't like old-school MS 'share-level shares'. Win98 > hardly knows anything other than that, so it doesn't have a problem. > You might need to set up samba (on the debian machine) more like an > NT/2k domain controller for XP to interact with it via SMB. > > However, I've heard rumors that Win2k and WinXP support IPP. If so, > you can ditch legacy MS vices and use an open standard instead. From > what I've heard, when/where windows asks for the path/url to the > printer, specify http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. Then it should use > TCP/IP for transport and network (in place of SMB) and HTTP/IPP for > the actual printer access. If this works, please post any relevant > details others should know to set that up. > > HTH, > -D
No definitive answer for a few days; laptop went to school with my grandson. WinXP does offer the option to add a network printer by specifying http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. When I tried it, XP could not find the printer BUT when I next downloaded samba XP couldn't find the computer until I told samba workgroup=PHOENIX and even then could not find the printer. I know XP is now communicating with Phoenix because of the messages in /var/log/samba/log.phoenix. There is also now a log.wimp but it is empty. wimp is the XP's name. I have not mastered the samba setup - users, passwords, encryption, printers, etc. I thought it should be a simple matter of making the printer available to all guests but wimp demands a user name and passwork before it will look for the printer. It can't be root as that, properly, is blocked in smb.conf. Naturally I tried my normal user name but log.phoenix shows this was refused. When wimp comes back from school I'll try again to sort this out. > > -- > (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network? > > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
