Hello everyone:
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring this one out, so I'd appreciate a
little assistance.  I have an HP 6200 printer which is hosted by a
Windows 2000 box named "Sparky" (named after one of my dogs, not because
of any hardware problems. :-) )  Previously the 6200 was hosted by a
Windows 98 box.  On my CentOS box, I configured the 6200 as a network
printer in CUPS, and I had no problem printing to it.  But the Windows
98 box seemed to crash every 4 hours or so, so I've moved it to Sparky,
which is quite stable.  The trouble is, Win2K wants a username and
password in order to allow someone to print, and I can't seem to disable
this feature.  From my wife's XP machine, I can print, providing I first
use File Explorer to log in to Sparky over the network.  

Now the CentOS box SEES Sparky and thinks it's printing to it, but
nothing ever gets into the 6200's queue.  I assume this is because the
CentOS box doesn't have permission, even though I've gone into Win2K
admin and given access to Everyone and Guest.  I think it at least wants
CentOS to go through the motions and log in as SOMETHING.  How can I
configure CUPS to make it do that?  BTW, I'm not moving the 6200 to
Linux anytime in the near future because (a) It already works with my
Windows machine (b) Some of the 6200's features are not available under
Linuxa, and (c) I need the Win 2K box anyway for other reasons.

I've googled around for this (oh no!  I said "googled"!  call the
lawyers!  :-)  ) and I can only find solutions for getting Windows to
recognized Linux-hosted Samba share printers, not the other way around.

Thanks!

Vaughn


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