10.3: Another fix for SMB printing

Feb 10, '04 09:39:00AM

Contributed by: rampras

I could not print to SMB printer from my OS X for quite a long time. It used to terminate printing with the errors:

Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds
Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
It was too frustrating .. and no pointers on the net helped. So, I started poking around, found /etc -> cups -> printers.conf file. The URI was quite wrong for the SMB printer, and that was the reason it did not print. So, I created printers.conf with the following:

<DefaultPrinter printer>
  Info HP
  Location MYDOMAIN
  DeviceURI smb://ramprasad:jmypass@mydomain/myprintserver/HP
  State Idle
  Accepting Yes
  JobSheets none none
  QuotaPeriod 0
  PageLimit 0
  KLimit 0
</Printer>
Now, I restarted cupsd and it started working fine ... Panther rocks (I could never do such a thing in Windows).

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