Setting up SMB printing (was:Help!!!!!printing!!!!!!!)

[youssefe2k]

hi all,

after an extensive search i came up with nothing please hlep me!!!!

ok i have fedora installed and networked with a windowsXp machine. samba works because i can see his shares ane he can see mine. The windows xp machine has a printer which i want to print to from fedora... the printer is shared and i have another user created so i can log in to. Ok this is what i did:

i used the redhat config tool and created a smb printer:

workgroup: workgroup
server: \\SERVER
share: \\SERVER\1210
user: user
password: pass

it created the printer but it wont print to it nothing happens no errors nothing, do i have to config something on the windows xp pc??

help please

[Icarus]

Did you setup the drivers in XP for this printer?
Linux has made me driver lazy, I don't have to look for drivers so I don't know if Windows uses them on a network share...

But I do think Windows needs the printer drivers loaded...

Can XP see the printer in the network shares?

Also, please use a proper subject title as Help!!!!!printing!!!!!!! doesn't tell us very much

[youssefe2k]

he thanx for the reply,

um the printer is on the xp computer and yeah it can see it in the share here is an update:

i installed the unix printing protocal thing on the xp machine an i added the printer as an smb printer in my linux box:

worgroup = workgroup
server = //server
share = //server/1210
user = usr
password = pass

and now the xp machine actually gets the file but for some reason when i print a small document (15k according to linux) the windows machine reports it as 3MB ?? what is going on?

[youssefe2k]

by the way the printer i have is hp psc 1210 and i have version 1.6 of the hpijs drivers installed

[youssefe2k]

could this be a driver problem any one have any error similar to this where the file because bigger? Could it be a driver issue since when i change the driver to postscript print (on my linux box) the file recieved by the windows machine is the same size sent except it gives me an error i guess because it is the wrong driver for the printer .... im using the hpijs 1.6 version drivers and a 15k file turns to a 3.98MB file any ideas???

[AdamZ]

I'm guessing that the driver is changing whatever format linux is using into a raw encoding that the printer can read. So the file is being made bigger. That's all I can think of.

[youssefe2k]

any way to fix the problem? should i use a generic raw driver?

[AdamZ]

Perhaps I wasn't very clear: the driver is converting from postscript or whatever into a form that the printer can understand (many printers understand postscript, however, it seems as though yours does not). So this isn't actually a problem. This is just how the computer has to talk to your printer.

Note again, I'm by no means an expert, and this isn't even neccesarily what's going on. It's just a guess at first glance. As long as stuff is printing right, it's all good :D

[youssefe2k]

oh ok thanx for the expo ... the problem is it is not printing at all i can see the file in the printer queue on the xp machine and it says printing 64kb of 3.98MB and nothing prints the printer starts flashing as if it is going to print but nothing prints .... anyone have a setup like this with a hp? or any ideas how to make it print?

[crabbyman6]

Just because I hate finding the same problem on the boards, but not the answer, here's what fixed my problem as described above. All you have to do it go onto the windows machine, go into the properties for the printer you're trying to use, and unclick the "bi-directional mode" or something like that check box, and then it should work