Re: Printers won't run

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
>
> [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a
>   remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine. ]
>
> > Seems to work fine.
> >
> > dgwicks:~$ smbclient -N -L joyce
> > Anonymous login successful
> > Domain=[PINEYWOODS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
> [...]
>
> > HPDeskjet       Printer   HP Deskjet 6500 Series
>
> [...]
>
> > This is a "home" network so I don't use ids or passwords. They would just 
> > unnecessarily complicate things.
>
> Try to change the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf to
>
> DeviceURI smb://guest@joyce/HPDeskjet
>
> or
>
> DeviceURI smb://guest@pineywoods/joyce/HPDeskjet
>
> and check if that improves the situation. You have to restart CUPS after
> you make a change to the configuration files; to do this, run:
>
> invoke-rc.d cupsys restart
>
> (If this does not work try uppercase letters for user, workgroup and
>  server.)

Florian,

None of those things made any difference. the HPDeskjet would not go 
ready and would not print. Nothing appeared to change. All the messages
in the error log looked the same. I didn't run diff on them, but I
didn't notice anything obviously different.

I did notice a couple of things.

In the error log are a lot of messages that say

     cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.

And the HPDeskjet is referred to as

     //localhost/printers/DeskJet-6540

When I check the HPDeskjet properties from the various places it does
appear that it is recognized as being a remote printer on //joyce though.

Just wondering