Re: Sharing a Printer

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:10:30 +0100, <esieens@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

i've setup my printer with a generic canon driver and it is recognised
and setup on my linux box.


Does it mean it prints locally?

Then i managed to install the printer on my Win XP machine as a network
printer using the following URL:
http://192.168.1.77:631/printers/canon-mp150

However when i try to print from the windows client, the document is
put in the Win XP queue - i can see the status changing to 'spooling'
then 'Error' but i have no detail on the error so i don't know why it's
failing.

Any idea what's wrong? 

1) is cupsd running on the linux server? netstat -atn | grep :631 ?

2) Any trace of the access attempts in /var/log/cups/access_log ?

3) Any trace of the printing attempts in /var/log/cups/error_log ?

4) Have you checked the event-log in Windows Xp? (control-panel, ...
   dont' remember the steps :( )

5) I have never quite understood what kind of services cups offers
   as a server.  I wonder if you need to export the printer using
   samba, to make it accessible from Windows Xp. If so, you may well
   have to remove the ":631" part of the printer url.

-Enrique
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