Slackware :: Print To WinXP Printer Via Samab & Redmon ?
Jan 12, 2010
I have my Slack box (Slack 13, 64bit) and wish to print to a Cannon ip1980 inkjet (32 bit drivers only. Source is only partially open, some libraries are closed source so cannot compile my own 64 bit driver) connected to WinXp laptop using the Windows drivers via wireless and Samba.
So I came across a little Windows app called RedMon that redirects a printer port to any other app [URL]
So basically what happens now on the Windows laptop is I have a virtual printer setup whose port is redirected to Redmon (call this Ghostscript2cannon) which in turn redirects it to a program called gsprint (command line tool that takes standard input - the print job - converts it to Postscript/Ghostscript for none PS printers) and then finally it goes off to the Cannon printer for printing using the Windows drivers - so far so good.
So the problem - basically I cannot get the printer to print from the Slack box even though I can see the shared printer and send a job to it. After a job is sent from the Linux box to the XP laptop if you double click on Ghostscript2cannon (on the xp machine) the job shows but there is no printer activity, the job just sits there and does not complete.
Some Diagnostics:
I can print a test page from Ghostscript2cannon directly on the Windows laptop so I know the Windows printer/redirect part is working.
From the Linux box I can see the shared folders of the XP laptop from Dolphin so we know the Samba/wireless part is functioning (although I cannot see the printer)
xxxxxx:/etc/samba$ uname -aLinux xxxxxx 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LinuxI have a printer shared off of Windows XP. I have always been able to print to this from Ubuntu by adding a network printer through the "Windows Printer via Samba" gui.Now, in Natty, I can set up the printer no problem but all jobs fail. In the printer properties gui I can see this text briefly: "Processing - unable to connect to cifs host".The errors in /var/log/cups/error_log are:
E [28/May/2011:14:32:31 -0700] [Job 15] Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) E [28/May/2011:14:32:31 -0700] [Job 15] Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) E [28/May/2011:14:32:31 -0700] [Job 15] Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
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