I was having trouble getting my 'unsupported' networked Canon ip1600 to work over the network (so I could print wirelessly from the Mac to my Windows PC without a print server). Canon was no help -- they told me what I was doing was impossible and unsupported. No matter what I did, I kept getting NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY errors, or login errors. So I searched around the internet and found a ton of tips, and the following combination seems to work every time for me:
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
- Make sure your Mac and windows PC are on the same workgroup (called workgroup!)
- Make sure your Windows PC is sharing the printer for everyone (including guest)
- Enable the guest account on XP
- Download and install the shareware PrintFab drivers, which include the Canon IP 1600 drivers.
- Set up the Samba print share as you normally would, except edit the file /etc/cups/printers.conf (as root level user), and change the DeviceURI to include guest@, something like this:
smb://guest@workgroup/servername/printer - Open up Terminal and enter: #ln -s 'which smbspool' /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
- Restart
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
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