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#1 2012-02-26 19:03:48

Hspasta
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[SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

I've been trying to print at my university with their printing network and I haven't been able to figure out how. Apparently its a Windows printer via Samba.

On windows, I just connect to their printer server, give my user account and password and I can connect to any printer.

I can't find anything on Arch to replicate that. I tried CUPS and add the printers through the web interface, but I feel like I'm not doing it right...

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#2 2012-02-26 20:27:33

David Batson
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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

I believe you need the avahi daemon running for network printer discovery.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi

It looks like you also need samba installed.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Installing

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#3 2012-02-26 22:35:26

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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

So I think I'm on the right path. I can ping the printer server. I've installed all the necessary packages. I've added an entry on the CUPS web interface that points to the printer on the server. Now I think the problem is that I don't know how to send my credentials so that I'm authenticated to print. How do I go about doing this?

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#4 2012-02-26 22:40:33

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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

Hspasta wrote:

So I think I'm on the right path. I can ping the printer server. I've installed all the necessary packages. I've added an entry on the CUPS web interface that points to the printer on the server. Now I think the problem is that I don't know how to send my credentials so that I'm authenticated to print. How do I go about doing this?

The printer address in cups should be of the form smb://username:password@printername.  Later, in the cups interface, the username and password are not displayed.  I am the only user of this laptop, so I don't loose a lot of sleep knowing that my clear text Samba password is stored on this computer, somewhere.

Edit: Fixed 2 typos

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#5 2012-02-26 23:58:57

Hspasta
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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

I got it to work.

Thanks for all the help!

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#6 2012-02-27 00:00:33

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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

Hspasta wrote:

I got it to work.

Thanks for all the help!

For the benefit of your fellow members, what did you do?


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#7 2012-02-27 00:24:14

Hspasta
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Re: [SOLVED]Connect to Printer Network and Print

I just passed the smb connection in CUPS like you said with username:password@printer and that worked.

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