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Activate advanced printer selection feature in PrintCenter
Authored by: Kool on Mar 06, '03 12:03:34PM

Thank you for the prompt response! After a restart I got the SMB option in the Advanced menu.

Only, now I added the printer: it gives this error when trying to print:

Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...: undefined error: 0

I'm afraid I have the smb address wrong. I used smb://<computername>/<Windows Shared Printer Name>/

So smb://geo292xx.geo.uu.nl/hp5p/

On a related topic: Does it matter that his printer / Win box is outside my workgroup? Where I can set mine?



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Activate advanced printer selection feature in PrintCenter
Authored by: LexAndLois on Mar 06, '03 12:43:49PM

I successfully got printing to work both ways, to a PLW 320 from a Win2K box and to an Alps MD1000 (attached to a Win2K box) from my iMac. Unfortunately, it was mostly a proof of concept and not something I readily use, so I don't remember all the details.

I do seem to recall that I had the same "can't connect" message with every combination of smb://... that I used until I changed the printer Sharing:Security preferences to allow full access to everyone. There could have been other factors involved (my test setup was in the same workgroup).



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Activate advanced printer selection feature in PrintCenter
Authored by: BigMac2 on Mar 06, '03 12:50:36PM

If you have protection on your WinXP box you can use this syntax:
smb://user:password@host/printer



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