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Anyone tried SMB printing?
Authored by: joel on Aug 28, '02 12:06:27AM

I tried muddling my way through setting up printing over SMB. Here's what I found so far

1) You need to use Mozilla to access the CUPS setup screen (http://localhost:631/). IE 5.2 kept giving me permission errors. I also enabled the root password along the way (see the MacOSXHints article on enabling root)
2) I found a good tutorial on CUPS at http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html. There were a couple things that were different on OS X.
The backend folder was in /usr/libexec/cups/backend/
I used ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool smb to make the softlink to add smb into the backend directory
To restart cups, I did a ps -aux | grep cupsd to find the process ID, then a kill on that process ID, and finally ran /usr/sbin/cupsd
All of this was done as root.

Anyway, I was able to walk through the Web interface but "print test page" failed. So, I'm not sure if it was an authentication issue or if I simply did something wrong.



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Anyone tried SMB printing?
Authored by: joel on Sep 05, '02 02:15:20PM
So it turns out that it really did work. I found out from another thread that printing a test page doesn't work for some unknown reason. I had never bothered to try it from a regular app. So, last night, I was able to print "hello world" from textedit over Airport over SMB to my HP LaserJet 4L (which is PCL, not PostScript) connected via Parallel to my Windows 2000 machine in my office. Phew!

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