Samba madness

Drew Van Zandt drew.vanzandt at gmail.com
Sun Jan 9 21:17:01 EST 2005


Howdy all,
   I'm having trouble getting a printer working network-wise at my
in-law's house.  Here's the skinny:

installed CUPS
installed SAMBA (OK it was already installed, I use the filesharing)
SAMBA configured to use CUPS, restarted
printer added in CUPS admin, with recommended driver. (HP LaserJet 6P
Foomatic/hpijs)
printer appears when I browse from an XP (Pro) system
When I try to connect, first the system asks if I trust the printer
driver on the host system... I say yes.  A moment later it informs me
that the driver offered isn't the correct one, and I browse to the
local driver I have just downloaded for the printer.  I am informed
that this, also, is not the correct driver.

Now, I'm certain that this is the correct XP driver; directly
connecting it to the parallel port works with this driver.  I'm
thinking that for some reason CUPS or Samba is advertising it
incorrectly.  Any suggestions or pointers?  I tried googling for
various phrases that sounded right to me, but haven't found anything
that worked.

cupsys: 1.1.22-8
samba: 3.0.10-1
Linux 2.4.27-1-386
debian sarge/testing

--DTVZ



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