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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Printing from Linux to Windows shared printer

I am trying to print from Linux to a shared printer on a Windows XP PC. I installed cups and foomatic, started cupsd and configured the printer (HP Deskjet 720C) in KDE control centre. When I try to print a test page I get the following message:

Catastrophe! - KNotify
A print error occurred. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'deskjet' -J 'KDE Print Test' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'root' -o ' multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-uncollated-copies orientation-requested=3' '/opt/kde/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' : execution failed with message:
client-error-not-possible

I have Googled like crazy but couldn't find a working solution.

For reference:

/etc/cups/printers.conf

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:33:20 PM BST
<DefaultPrinter deskjet>
Info HP DeskJet 720C
Location 
DeviceURI smb://guest@MSHOME/ANDROMEDA/HPDeskJet
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser root shaurz
</Printer>

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf (comments stripped)

LogLevel info
Port 631
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>
<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

lpstat -t

scheduler is running
system default destination: deskjet
device for deskjet: smb://MSHOME/ANDROMEDA/HPDeskJet
deskjet accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
printer deskjet is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:0