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rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 06:25 Post subject:

When you get the request for a password, just press Enter. However, if everything was working correctly, you should not get any error messages at the end. I did some Googling, but I can't find anything useful about running CUPS over wireless. Sorry.

[Edit] Did you try using the machine name instead of the IP adress?

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

try taking cups of of the loop and printing directly ie
http://puppylinux.org/wiki/how-tos/general/genericsharedpostscriptprinteronwindows?cmt=true#internal11
I do not know if this will work if the printer doesn't understand postscript.

You could try installing the full hplip package which is massive and seeing if the hp software can sort it out.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27519

exProphecy · Posted: Tue 15 Jul 2008, 19:31 Post subject:

I tried installing the hplip package but I don't see the addition of the Model/Driver in the list of drivers. I only see the original hpijs drivers that I previously installed.

And yes I've tried just using the Windows machine name and just using the IP address.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I think you need to run hp-setup from the commandline
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/man_pages/index.html

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 04:47 Post subject:

I enter hp-setup and it says: "bash: hp-setup: not found"

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

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*"

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 08:43 Post subject:

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.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 09:22 Post subject:

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.

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:17 Post subject:

@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

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:25 Post subject:

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.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:37 Post subject:

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?

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:45 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:55 Post subject:

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

smb://guest@COMPUTER_NAME/PRINTER_NAME

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 16 Jul 2008, 18:11 Post subject:

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.