Print to Windows Shared Printers

[sidhughes]

Joel,

I need some help. I have your article on ‘Five Cool Things to do with CUPS’ and can’t seem to get the print to windows printers feature to work.

I have quoted the section that seems to be giving me trouble:

> Now start up printer sharing from the Sharing Preference Pane. If you have
> already started it, you need to turn it off and then on again for CUPS to pick
> up the changes. Go back to the CUPS web interface at http://127.0.0.1:631.
> Select “Add Printer.” Give it a name, a location, and a description. In the
> next screen, pull down the menu to “Windows printer via SAMBA.” Now add in the
> URI. The format is as follows:
>
> smb://user:pass@workgroup/server/sharename
>
My question concerns the exact values that need to go in the URI line shown above:

Is the user:password item a user name and password set up on the windows machine? I am running XP Pro, and have two users set up on the computer, but have not set up users and passwords as we think of on a server.

Is the workgroup the workgroup name on the windows machine?

Is the server a name or an IP address?

Is the sharename the name given to the printer when setting up sharing on the windows machine?

Can you give me a real-world example?

Sorry for the questions, I am new at windows and CUPS, for that matter.

Thanks,

Sid

[bossa nova]

MacTroll wrote:

The kicker in all of this is Apple broke some things in the 10.2.4 and 10.2.5 updates. So the pieces of Samba that you had in the standard OSX install that did this no longer work. The solution is to grab the older versions from 10.2.3 or install the pieces from fink.

Joel

So did they fix it in 10.2.6?…and if not do you think they will?

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