Printing with CUPS through SAMBA

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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:20:58 -0500

OK, here's the scenario. My home network is primarily Windows machines
except for mine, which is running Ubuntu (a spinoff of Debian). One of
the Windows XP machines has an HP LaserJet 4P printer. I can see the
computer with the printer just fine (I can browse through it's shared
folder, etc), but when it comes to printing through the printer attached
to it, I have some problems. For example, if I run 'smbclient -L
administrator -N" in the terminal, I get the following outpupt:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
hikaru79@ubuntu:~ $ smbclient -L administrator -N
Domain=[ADMINISTRATOR] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

         Sharename Type Comment
         --------- ---- -------
         HPPS735 (E) Disk
         Bkp_Pictures Disk
         IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
         D$ Disk Default share
         print$ Disk Printer Drivers
         SharedDocs Disk
         G$ Disk Default share
         Printer5 Printer Acrobat Distiller
         ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
         C$ Disk Default share
         Printer Printer HP LaserJet 4P
         ClipsRomania Disk
         Family Album Disk
Domain=[ADMINISTRATOR] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

         Server Comment
         --------- -------

         Workgroup Master
         --------- -------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Judging from this output I would think the correct next step would be:
'lpadmin -p LaserJetPrinter -v smb://administrator/Printer -P
/root/inkjet.ppd' But when I do this, I get the following error:
'lpadmin: add-printer (set model) failed: client-error-not-found'

What's wierd is if I then go into the graphical printer manager, the new
printer STILL shows up. However, it does not work. When I try to print a
test page, I get this:

'Printing to 'LaserJetPrinter' failed with error code: 1286
is the printer paused ?'

Here are some screenshots of the printer properties menu tabs that I
took in case I'm not describing things well. Notice in the second
screenshot, there's a password filled in--I did not fill it in and there
shouldn't be one as there is no password on the network--is this normal?

http://thegoban.com/Screenshot.png
http://thegoban.com/Screenshot-1.png

My question is what can I do to be able to send to my printer through
this Windows network? NOTE: I have physical access to both the
administrator computer and the printer itself--this is just a small home
network

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! =D

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