Printing to windows printers

[Tom Achtenberg]

In the print config gui I am giving the administrator ID and password for the 
NT box.  That should take care of any rights issues at the NT end.

On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:53 am, you wrote:
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > Here is the /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> >
> > foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7
> > Omni-foomatic-0.5.0-4
> > # printcap.local
> > #
> > # This file is included by printconf's generated printcap,
> > # and can be used to specify custom printcap entries.
> >
> > # /etc/printcap
> > #
> > # DO NOT EDIT! MANUAL CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
> > # This file is autogenerated by printconf-backend during lpd init.
> > #
> > # Hand edited changes can be put in /etc/printcap.local, and will be
> > included.
> >
> > HP5L:\
> >
> >         :ml=0:\
> >         :mx=0:\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HP5L:\
> >         :af=/var/spool/lpd/HP5L/HP5L.acct:\
> >         :sh:\
> >         :lp=|/usr/share/printconf/util/smbprint:\
> >         :lpd_bounce=true:\
> >         :if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:
> >
> > #########################################################################
> >###### ## Everything below here is included verbatim from
> > /etc/printcap.local ##
> > #########################################################################
> >###### # printcap.local
> > #
> > # This file is included by printconf's generated printcap,
> > # and can be used to specify custom printcap entries.
> >
> > lp        1912  0.0  0.8  2828  776 ?        S    Dec25   0:00 lpd
> > Waiting root      3016  0.0  0.6  1704  596 pts/1    S    22:10   0:00
> > grep lpd
>
> ----------
> OK - on my system, it was really fussy about the "Share" section in the
> queue type.
>
> I hade to make it \\SERVER\Printer_Share
>
> so in my case, it was \\PEBBLES\Xerox
> where Pebbles is the name of the computer
> and Xerox is the name of the printer share on the computer named Pebbles
> you could probably just put guest and no password in the appropriate
> areas - depending upon how you have the printer sharing configured,
> otherwise you would need a valid user/password combination for the
> Windows Domain.
>
> Craig
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