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#1 2011-05-23 23:14:26
- madchine
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[SOLVED] SAMBA: Can't connect to shared printer
[I'm posting this here, seeing as it's a half-hardware-half-networking issue]
I have a Synology DS-107+ NAS, that supports printer sharing via SAMBA. The printer shows up clearly under external devices in the DS's GUI and I believe that the samba sharing works. The reasons for this is that a) disk shares work very well (addresses such as smb://mads@192.168.1.66/music/ show up correctly in nautilus - after the password is given) and b) smbclient lists the printer among the shares ('mads' is local as well as network user):
[~] smbclient -L 192.168.1.66
Enter mads's password:
Domain=[COOP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.8]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
bt Disk bittorrent destination
media Disk main shared folder
music Disk music folder
transmission Disk transmissions download folder
IPC$ IPC IPC Service ()
usbprinter1 Printer Brother HL-2030 series
Domain=[COOP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.8]
Server Comment
--------- -------
MIKE
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
COOP WINCENT
[~] I read the wiki and figured that it would be easy to add
smb://user:password@192.168.1.66/usbprinter1(which I have tried with both standard user and administrator user) to CUPS - both Gnome 3 and web interfaces. However the former just refuses to add the printer and the latter adds it but trying to print a test page results in endless 'pending' jobs - leading me to conclude that it's not really communicating with the printer...
Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong?
EDIT: Incidentally, it's a Brother HL-2030 and I'm using the PPD file from the AUR
EDIT: And the it just worked when I deleted previous attempts and added it all over again, just to be sure... God how I hate that. I apologise for the inconvenience.
Last edited by madchine (2011-05-23 23:27:59)
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