Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote:
I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from
an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and
wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am trying to add the printer
using Printers off the Kmenu->Settings. I know the name of the computer
that it is being shared from and I know the shared name of the printer from
the XP desktop. I have tried scanning the network but my laptop comes back
every time with nothing found.
I have had cases myself where the KDE printer scan came up empty but it
nevertheless worked to select "SMB" and to put in the correct username
and password (for the windows print "server"), the server and the
printer name in the KDE dialogs. If I remember correctly, you have to
use the server name without the leading "//" (or "\\" as Windows has
it).
The printer is connected to the desktop via a USB cable and the port number
that is assigned to the printer in XP is USB001 (virtual port). Could this
be the root of the problem? I am not even sure I will be able to print to
the printer, but at this point, I can't even see the printer. I have also
opened up port 9100 on my firewall just in case, but that didn't work
either, so I removed it.
Any additional help would be appreciated.
If what I have posted above does not get you going then you should try
to run
smbclient -U <user> -L <server>
to see if you can "talk" to the XP machine at all. This command should
list all available services, e.g. shared folders, exported printers,
etc. (You will be prompted for a password if the server requires one.
<server> can be specified with or without the leading "//".)
As it turns out...I didn't have the smbclient installed. I thought
since I was able to get access to the shares on the XP machine for file
that everything was working. So I now have the client running and I can
see the printer. The issue I am having now is authentication. If I do
the above command and provide the password I get a nice detailed list of
all the items that are available from the machine, printer included.
When I run the KDE Printer setup wizard everything goes just fine. Then
at the last step it asks for authorization and I type in the exact same
username and password that I used in the command line and it fails. I
have verified the username and passwords on the desktop and they work
fine when logging in there. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
-Eric
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