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I know this is going to be one of those "D'oh" moments, but here goes...
I've searched the Forums, Web and Wiki but I haven't found the answer and I've been trying for the last three days.
My printers are connected to the family desktop running Windows XP Pro. I just can't seem to get printing to work from my laptop running Arch. I am able to print from my laptop when using Ubuntu's 8.04 Live CD, So I know that things on my windows side are set correctly. When using the live CD, the printers are located at
smb://mshome/onyx/hp840and
smb://mshome/onyx/Photo200These were set up using the GNOME printer configuration tool. Using the same URI in the web based cups config in Arch, openbox and my WM, I get the following error:
"Unable to connect to CIFS host after (tried 3 times)"I'm not currently at my computer but will post additional info, if needed, after work.
Thanks,
Kent
RESOLVED: I managed to get printing to work by changing the location of the printer to the Windows box ip address:
smp://192.168.x.x/printer_nameMy question now; since my Windows box gets it's ip via dhcp what happens when the ip changes? There has to be a way to take this into consideration.
Is there a way to specify a range of ips to a host in /ect/hosts?
Last edited by 000krf (2008-11-14 22:21:51)
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