How to access printer on a wifi network

[sergelli]

@deano_ferrari

Hard to help with this from a distance. Only you know the steps that you’ve taken and your posts tend to be a little vague. I can only attempt to provide limited remote guidance with this, (but much easier for me if I was at the machine of course).

What is the Windows name of your printer?

From a Windows console do

wmic printer list brief

then with a little luck you can configure CUPS with the appropriate URI manually. For example if using LPD, the URI would look something like…

lpd://hostname/queue or lpd://192.168.0.107/<your_shared_printer_name>

For samba printing instead it would look like this…

smb://192.168.0.7/<your_shared_printer_name>

Sometimes, you’ll need to provide credentials…

smb://username:password@<IP address or hostname>/<printersharename>

Try configuring via the CUPS web interface using a browser. Point it at “localhost:631/admin”

and select ‘Add Printer’. Follow the prompts given.

You will need to select the appropriate driver (by selecting make and model). I note there are gutenprint drivers for the MP250 printer, but I also know from experience that they don’t always work for Canon users. Canon does provide Linux drivers packages for some models and the MP250 is one of them. You may need to try the vendor-supplied driver See here…

PIXMA MP250 - Support - Download drivers, software and manuals - Canon Europe

Some additional guides that may be helpful to you:

Samba Administration Guide - Printing from CUPS to Windows-Attached Printers
Using LPD & LPR with PaperCut NG/MF | PaperCut
Part D of this Mint “How To” post…
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=28397

Thanks for the effort,
On Windows server I got a good response:

C:\Users\Tania>wmic printer list brief
Location  Name                           PrinterState  PrinterStatus  ShareName   SystemName
 OneNote for Windows 10             0             3                                            DESKTOP-AOEBN3S
  
 Microsoft XPS Document Writer  0             3                                             DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Microsoft Print to PDF                 0             3                                              DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Fax                                              0             3                                              DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Canon MP250 series Printer       0             3                      CanonMP250  DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

But look what my PC shows with lpd and smd commands:

positivo:/home/sergio # lpd:/192.168.0.107/CanonMP250
bash: lpd:/192.168.0.107/CanonMP250:File or directory not found 
positivo:/home/sergio # lpd://hostname/queue
bash: lpd://hostname/queue: File or directory not found 
positivo:/home/sergio # lpd If 'lpd' is not a typo, you can use command-not-found to search the package that contains it, like this:      cnf lpd 

Note: I have Samba installed and I turned off the firewall on both machines

positivo:/home/sergio # cnf lpd
 lpd: command not found               
positivo:/home/sergio # cnf smb
 smb: command not found         
positivo:/home/sergio # 

[deano_ferrari]

@sergelli

Thanks for the effort,
On Windows server I got a good response:

C:\Users\Tania>wmic printer list brief
Location  Name                           PrinterState  PrinterStatus  ShareName   SystemName
 OneNote for Windows 10             0             3                                            DESKTOP-AOEBN3S
  
 Microsoft XPS Document Writer  0             3                                             DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Microsoft Print to PDF                 0             3                                              DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Fax                                              0             3                                              DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

 Canon MP250 series Printer       0             3                      CanonMP250  DESKTOP-AOEBN3S

Ok, so the printer name is CanonMP250.

But look what my PC shows with lpd and smd commands:

positivo:/home/sergio # lpd:/192.168.0.107/CanonMP250
bash: lpd:/192.168.0.107/CanonMP250:File or directory not found 
positivo:/home/sergio # lpd://hostname/queue
bash: lpd://hostname/queue: File or directory not found 
positivo:/home/sergio # lpd If 'lpd' is not a typo, you can use command-not-found to search the package that contains it, like this:      cnf lpd 

They’re not commands!. They are printer URIs that you add as part of the CUPS configuration.