Having some issues finding my network printers (connected on another computer) from my openSUSE machine using the YaST gui. Who in the world decided to make YaST the default administrative GUI for openSUSE anyway? It is leaving much to be desired IMHO.
Anyway, so I go to Printer in YaST, then go to the connection wizard. Tried connecting via TCP/IP as well as Windows/SAMBA. No luck. Curiously I’ve never had a problem setting up networked printers with other flavors of Linux. :sarcastic:
Yes I do apologize in advance to any hard core openSUSE people if I am offending anyone with my criticism, but being spawned by Novell had left me with high hopes for openSUSE, and I was impressed when I installed 11.2 about a week ago, but since then, well…
Ok. I used the CUPS interface to setup the two printers I have shared from a Windows machine. The appeared to setup successfully however I can’t print to them. I’m sure it’s something I’ve entered in incorrectly.
Still prefer the GUI tools in Fedora and Ubuntu for configuring printers because they just work without having to dink around and poke and tinker. lol!
I just don’t have the time to poke and tinker around like I used to. Way back in the day I used to be pretty good with all this config stuff, but I got away from keeping a Linux box up and running all the time at home for a few years and have been back into it for about the last year. Not happy with what Red Hat has done with Fedora I moved to Ubuntu. Ubuntu works really well, but a few quirks in their 9.10 release made decide to try openSUSE. If you like to poke and tinker around a lot, then openSUSE is a good choice I suppose.
On Mon November 23 2009 03:36 pm, linuxdave wrote:
>
> Ok. I used the CUPS interface to setup the two printers I have shared
> from a Windows machine. The appeared to setup successfully however I
> can’t print to them. I’m sure it’s something I’ve entered in
> incorrectly.
>
> Still prefer the GUI tools in Fedora and Ubuntu for configuring
> printers because they just work without having to dink around and poke
> and tinker. lol!
>
> I just don’t have the time to poke and tinker around like I used to.
> Way back in the day I used to be pretty good with all this config stuff,
> but I got away from keeping a Linux box up and running all the time at
> home for a few years and have been back into it for about the last year.
> Not happy with what Red Hat has done with Fedora I moved to Ubuntu.
> Ubuntu works really well, but a few quirks in their 9.10 release made
> decide to try openSUSE. If you like to poke and tinker around a lot,
> then openSUSE is a good choice I suppose.
>
>
linuxdave;
I think this HowTo by Swerdna will apply more to your situation than the one
given by deano ferrari. It deals with printing to printers attached directly
to a Window’s machine.
In addition try testing with Firewalls down on both the Windows and Linux
machines. The Window’s firewall may be blocking the connection. It would be
easier if we knew more details:
What printers are you trying to connect to, make&model?
How you are setting up the printers in CUPs, driver & URI?
What method you are using, LPD or Smb/cifs?
It might help to check /var/log/cups/error_log to see if it sheds some light
on why you can not print. If you still need help post any pertinent log
entries.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Ok well I finally got back around to this. I got all the way through the process of adding a printer (Windows printer via Samba) and then CUPS asked me for a user name and password. First I tried my normal user/pass and that didn’t work, then I tried using root and after entering in root credentials I went to a blank page.
The printer(s) I have are connected directly to my Window$ machine via USB cables.
I do very little printing these days so it’s not a big deal, but just one of those little things… And I’m wondering why I got a blank page from CUPS interface too.
I’ll keep poking around when I have more time (and feel like being frustrated) and see what else I can come up with.