Using an XP attached printer on another macine.

[marcsRX]

I am trying to share a Cannon Pixma iP1800 attached to an XP machine. It is being shared, Other PC's in my network can use it as well as my XP virtual machine in virtualbox

Got samba installed and working. So i can see my windows workgroup and attached machines shared .dir's.

I am trying to use the System--> Printer Configuration --> New printer --> New Network Printer

I use the "other" option and the url is smb://work/crs2/canoniP1 (cannoniP1 is the share name of the printer in XP)

I installed the driver "cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-2_i386.deb" and it appears when i go to choose a driver using the New Network Printer.

When i try to hit ok at the end of the dialogue it says "There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-not-possible'"

Here is the cat of ....
root@CRS100:~# cd /var/log/cups
root@CRS100:/var/log/cups# cat error_log
E [09/May/2009:09:36:56 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:09:48:00 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:10:28:34 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:11:11:24 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:11:15:13 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:12:49:22 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:33:48 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:36:02 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:36:02 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:42:52 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:42:53 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:42:53 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:59:04 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
root@CRS100:/var/log/cups#


Please help me. I've been at this for days. Searched and searched and my head is about to assplode. THANX in advance for any and all help.

[marcsRX]

Re: Using an XP attached printer on another macine.

BUMP1!

[marcsRX]

Re: Using an XP attached printer on another macine.

BUMPo :-X

[Detonate]

Re: Using an XP attached printer on another macine.

I would suggest using ipp instead of samba. It's much easier. First you have to install the support for unix printer sharing in windows. You can do this with Add/Remove Programs.Windows components. Then google for instructions, using linux, ubuntu, ipp windows as search terms and you should be up and running quickly.