How can Puppy 4 use networked HP PSC 1315xi Printer?

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#21 Post by HairyWill »

maybe it is not in the path, I can't remember, what do you get for typing hp then hitting tab?
or
find / -name "hp*"
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#22 Post by rcrsn51 »

Here is something else to try with smbclient.

Go to the Windows printer and pause it. That way, if a job shows up in its queue, you will get a chance to see it.

Go to your Puppy machine and put a dummy test file in your home directory. Anything will do, provided that it is more than zero bytes long.

Go to a console and type: smbclient -NL PC_NAME
Make note of the shared printer's name.

Type: smbclient -N //PC_NAME/PRINTER_NAME

This should get you an smb:> prompt.
Type: print TESTFILE_NAME

If smbclient reports that it sent the file, it should appear in the Windows print queue.
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#23 Post by rcrsn51 »

If you run Pnethood, can you access the shared folders on the Windows machine? That information should help to determine if this is a networking issue or a printing issue.

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#24 Post by lluamco »

exProphecy wrote:now I once again am trying print with the Windows host and it's still saying:

"Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds..."

The Windows host has no firewall installed. But I do believe the wireless network router has a built in firewall. Maybe that's the problem? If so, how do I let it go thru?
My impression is that the name of the printer is not correct, or it is not marked as shared by the windows host. Please check that the printer is really shared, and check also its name. Assuming that the IP number of the windows host is 192.168.1.15 and the windows printer name is PRINTER, then you have to install it under cups using:
smb://192.168.1.15/PRINTER
In addition, use the driver which name is closest to your printer. I guess it can be HP-PSC_1310

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#25 Post by exProphecy »

@rcrsn51: I ran that and I found out that the sharename is actually not what I named the printer on the Windows host. Weird..? I was able to change it to what I want. Anyways, that helped because I put it that sharename into CUPS BUT I get this new error. "Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)". With that error, I was assuming that the printer is denying my Puppy host access to the printer. What's going on? The printer is shared thru the network though. Also, I ran Pnethood and sharing folders and print$ works there.

@lluamco: Yes I guess you were right about the name. Haha
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#26 Post by exProphecy »

Also, I went to the Windows host and checked the printing jobs that were currently underway. I see some new files attempting to print that are called "Remote Downlevel Document". They are in the queue but they aren't printing.
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#27 Post by rcrsn51 »

Are these the ones sent by your smbclient test? Is your printer still paused? If so, delete them and run the smbclient test again. Can you confirm that the dummy file is being sent to the Windows queue?

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#28 Post by exProphecy »

rcrsn51 wrote:Are these the ones sent by your smbclient test? Is your printer still paused? If so, delete them and run the smbclient test again. Can you confirm that the dummy file is being sent to the Windows queue?
Yes each time I enter the test file the "Remote Downlevel Document" shows up.
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#29 Post by rcrsn51 »

Try this - create the CUPS printer again but use this URI:

smb://guest@COMPUTER_NAME/PRINTER_NAME

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#30 Post by exProphecy »

Still not printing. It shows up in the Windows host queue as "Printing" but it's not printing anything. And in CUPS, it just disappears as if it printed. There's no error at all.
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#31 Post by rcrsn51 »

It now looks like the print job made it from Puppy to Windows. Since the printer won't complete the job, my first instinct would be that the driver is wrong. But I believe that you tested it as a local printer and it worked. I'm stumped again.

By the way - did using "guest" actually make a difference?
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#32 Post by rcrsn51 »

Have you rebooted the printer recently?

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#33 Post by exProphecy »

Well, every time I use smbclient -NL PC_NAME it gives the error:

Connection to PC_NAME failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)

But when I open up Pnethood, and leave it open, I am able to use smbclient -NL PC_NAME and it works. So I suppose opening up Pnethood helped it somehow? Yes I've rebooted the printer multiple times and the Windows host as well.
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#34 Post by rcrsn51 »

PC_NAME should be the actual name of the particular Windows machine to which you are connecting.

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#35 Post by exProphecy »

rcrsn51 wrote:PC_NAME should be the actual name of the particular Windows machine to which you are connecting.
Yes of course I know hahaha! The PC_NAME is SINISTER. I'm not that noobish. =P
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#36 Post by exProphecy »

So you guys think it's a driver problem because I installed the hpijs-2.8.2.pet from the PETget package manager, and the driver I'm using is the HP PSC 1310 driver. It said it should work for 1315xi.
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