Comments on: Printing to Windows XP printer from Ubuntu

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:23:34 +0000

Hello,
i have a kyocera taskalfa180 printer which doesnt seem to be supported in linux. I installed it in xp vmware and am able to print from it. problem comes when adding it to ubuntu…I browse a network printer from system>printing and i see it but i dont know which drivers to select from the database coz my kyocera model is not listed. Any assistance is highly regarded.

br..

peter

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:47:43 +0000

Nick’s post (http://nick.onetwenty.org/index.php/2006/01/04/brother_hl_2040_laser_printer_under_ubun/) was pretty helpful as well.

By: wootboy

wootboy — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:02:31 +0000

Thanks A LOT, Rachel. Ubuntu 10.10 was able to find my printer, which is a few years old, with ease. Cheers!

By: Dharmendra Singh

Dharmendra Singh — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:26:18 +0000

HI there,
I have Hp LasserJet 1007/1008 printer installed on windows xp sp2 on some other machine which is in LAN. And on the other hand side I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 lucid on my PC in LAn too. I want to share printer which is on Windows Xp in LAN. Plz suggest me on this.
Regards

By: Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review) « Nick

Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review) « Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:36:09 +0000

[...] The tricky bit was finding the correct driver. The HL-2040 wasn’t listed in the printer selection dialogue, so I did a quick google to find a compatible printer driver. Got all the info I needed in a reply to a post on Rachel’s Knowledge Base [...]

By: Pari

Pari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:28:55 +0000

whoops… i meant to say i used the ip address of my computer for the “host”

By: Pari

Pari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:25:48 +0000

If it helps anybody, i used the ip address of my computer for the
I was having a lot of problems with the verification. The guest account fixed that for me. Thanks!

By: John Koval

John Koval — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:15:54 +0000

I am Back again;\
now I can’t find //Home/Luigi when browsing.
Can find this when using Windoze (this machine has dual boot)
so I must have removed something need for this.
I have reinstalled most of samba components, but this has not helped

By: Jelsa

Jelsa — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:39:08 +0000

I tried to be able to print to Windows XP Host printer . In this case, I have HP D1360. Finally the way is just to make sure you do these steps :
1. Go to Control panel -> Printers & faxes
2. Right-click on Printer -> Properties -> Ports tab
3. Uncheck “enable bidirectional support”

By: John Koval

John Koval — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:02:34 +0000

Solved my own problem:

Using Ubuntu 8.04
1. reinstalled samba

2.Administration -> Printing -> New Printer -> Windows Printer via SAMBA

3. in SMB Printer sub-window, Browse

4. Browsed to HOME/Luigi/hpdesk
so that address was
smb://HOME/Luigi/hpdesk
in general
smb://workgroup/server/printer

It works wonderfully; thanks for your guidance