laptop won't find Kubuntu shared printer

[papaschtroumpf]

I shared my printer under Kubuntu.
My desktop (win7 ultimate) sees is and used it just fine.
My laptop (Win7 home premium) sees the shared directories but doesn't list the printer.

I don't even know where to start. I don't see anything obviously different between the two windows machines, but Win7 netwroking is a bit a of a mystery to me.

I could see not seeing anything, but seeing the shares but not the printer is weird...

[papaschtroumpf]

Re: laptop won't find Kubuntu shared printer

Windows 7 Event viewer reports:

The document Untitled - Notepad, owned by Main, failed to print on printer \\Tuxedo\ml-1710. Try to print the document again, or restart the print spooler.
Data type: NT EMF 1.008. Size of the spool file in bytes: 1204. Number of bytes printed: 0. Total number of pages in the document: 1. Number of pages printed: 0. Client computer: \\LAPTOP. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 0. The operation completed successfully.


and the detailed tab shows:

+ System

- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-PrintService
[ Guid] {747EF6FD-E535-4D16-B510-42C90F6873A1}

EventID 372

Version 0

Level 2

Task 26

Opcode 12

Keywords 0x8000000000000840

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2010-08-20T01:21:37.607283600Z

EventRecordID 21

Correlation

- Execution
[ ProcessID] 1456
[ ThreadID] 812

Channel Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin

Computer Laptop

- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-21-1127970539-1426318310-960204050-1000
- UserData



- PrintOnProcFailedEd




Param1 Untitled




Param2 Main




Param3 \\Tuxedo\ml-1710




Param4 NT EMF 1.008




Param5 2162688




Param6 0




Param7 2




Param8 0




Param9 \\LAPTOP




Param10 0




Param11 The operation completed successfully.

[papaschtroumpf]

Re: laptop won't find Kubuntu shared printer

I have no idea what log to look at on the Kubuntu side.
I hear the hard drive whirr so it seems the machine is seeing activity but I don't know why it's not printing

[perspectoff]

Re: laptop won't find Kubuntu shared printer

Make sure there isn't a firewall blocking something somewhere.

90% of networking problems (like you describe) are due to firewalls.

Turn off your firewalls, hunt for the printer. If it connects, you need to start tweaking your firewall settings.

[papaschtroumpf]

Re: laptop won't find Kubuntu shared printer

a default Kubuntu install doesn't come with a firewall does it?