• kri5
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Topic: [Resolved]I Give up!

I have been trying to access  my HP Photosmart C4400 Series printer which is connected via USB to a Windows XP desktop machine.  The printer is configured to be shared and my wife can indeed print OK from her Windows 7 laptop.  I have been trying to configure my #! installation on my laptop so that i can use the printer as well but I'm having no luck what so ever with CUPS.  I've tried reading the information on the CUPS website but I just can't make sense of what I'm supposed to do, apart from installing Ubuntu/Kubuntu which I don't really want to do. sad

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

Can this be of interest?

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/mo … eries.html

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

you tried 'system-config-printer' instead of the CUPS website-setup-thingy? CUPS never worked for me so i set up my own HP all-in-one thing through that.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

vicshrike wrote:

Can this be of interest?

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/mo … eries.html

I have hplip installed and have no trouble using the printer if connected directly via the USB, just can't configure CUPS for network/wireless printing.

rhowaldt wrote:

you tried 'system-config-printer' instead of the CUPS website-setup-thingy? CUPS never worked for me so i set up my own HP all-in-one thing through that.

I'm trying that also but must confess i do not know what information i should be entering in the URI etc

#! Statler (10-20120207) 32bit-BPO Openbox
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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

^ oh yeah i forgot how that worked. ok what i did was go to the printer, enter the setup-menu (hardware-option), and ask it to print a list of its network-settings etc. you'll get a print-out with the IP and you can use that to feed to system-config-printer.
i did this with a wireless printer so not sure how this works in your specific case. but that's what i did.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

^ If only i had a wireless printer. wink
I have tried entering the IP Address of the desktop machine and searching for network printer but that doesn't seem to work either.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

still, the printer should have its own IP in the network, so you could try getting to that IP directly. as i said, you could try retrieving that IP through a print-out of the printer's network-settings through its hardware setup-menu. or have you tried that already?

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I shall have a look, although i didn't think my printer had an IP Address as it's a USB printer connected to the other machine.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

As i suspected the menu on my printer only has options for printing, scanning and photocopying.
Unless the PC it is attached to allocates an IP Address to the printer?

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

In that case you may need to share the USB printer from your Windows box - I've managed to access a USB inkjet which is connected to my NAS and exported from it, so should be possible from Windows - have you shared it from there first ?

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

kri5 wrote:

As i suspected the menu on my printer only has options for printing, scanning and photocopying.
Unless the PC it is attached to allocates an IP Address to the printer?


Is the printer hooked to a WinBox or your #1?

Print Test page from Win which will give you IP.

this worked for me on #1 (pre 1125 version)

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EnochRoot wrote:

In that case you may need to share the USB printer from your Windows box - I've managed to access a USB inkjet which is connected to my NAS and exported from it, so should be possible from Windows - have you shared it from there first ?

The printer is shared on the XP machine and accessible to my wifes Win 7 machine, so the share works fine and my wife is able to print OK.

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Is the printer hooked to a WinBox or your #1?

Print Test page from Win which will give you IP.

this worked for me on #1 (pre 1125 version)

The printer is a USB printer connected to my Windows XP machine.
Printed a test page from Windows but there is no IP Address.

I do however know the IP Address of the Win XP machine.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

As far as I know, USB printers will never have an IP address of their own. Using a windows printer share from a linux machine will more than likely require some samba configuration.

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

I had this working once using samba, before my wife decided it was just easier to use the USB switch to connect her laptop to the printer. I don't remember exactly how I got it working, but this might help (or google "share a windows printer with samba").

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mynis01 wrote:

As far as I know, USB printers will never have an IP address of their own. Using a windows printer share from a linux machine will more than likely require some samba configuration.

I thought i may have been missing something earlier but I had the same feeling myself, have tried the Windows machine IP Address in CUPS without success.

2ManyDogs wrote:

I had this working once using samba, before my wife decided it was just easier to use the USB switch to connect her laptop to the printer. I don't remember exactly how I got it working, but this might help (or google "share a windows printer with samba").

I think Samba may be the way to go, I'm getting no where with CUPS.  I shall take a look at Samba tonight, thanks guys.

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#! Statler (10-20120207) 32bit-BPO Openbox
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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

^ yeah, sorry, didn't realize the printer was connected through USB. indeed in that case it won't have an IP.
good luck with the Samba smile

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^ No worries, I thought for a minute maybe you knew something I didn't. sad
Hopefully Samba will sort things out, if not at least the USB cable is quite long. lol

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Re: [Resolved]I Give up!

All sorted now.
By installing #! on the desktop machine with the printer and installing Samba on both it just worked. big_smile
The Network printer was detected on my laptop and i can print fine.

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