Comments on: Printing to Windows XP printer from Ubuntu

By: lioddities

lioddities — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:04:01 +0000

I couldn’t get it to work at first by following the instructions exactly. Then I noticed the “verify printer” button and kept changing things till it said “verified”. What I did was use the IP address of the machine hosting the printer instead of the hostname. Worked like a charm then. Hope this helps someone.

By: Janesh

Janesh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:05:54 +0000

Hi,
I was struggling with printer setup and your note worked like a charm. Very useful information. Thanks.

By: wieszti

wieszti — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:44:43 +0000

Thanks man

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:34:07 +0000

Paul, thanks for the karma deposit

I’ve added a note about the case-sensitivity.

Rachel

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:28:47 +0000

Thanks for this.

Note that the host name is Case Sensitive, despite my windows box calling itself ‘mainbox’, only ‘Mainbox’ works.

Why doesn’t the case sensitive mention get made in any of the other guides.

BIG BIG THANKYOU..

PLEASE receive a large deposit of good karma in your karma account.

By: dmparker

dmparker — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:12:39 +0000

Right on! I’ve been looking for this solution for days, got to your page and quickly figured it out, thank you so much.

At first I had a problem (Unable to connect to CIFS host…) but once I did a
“net view ” from a windows box I was able to see what my printer was ACTUALLY called, not what I THOUGHT it was called…

By: dennis

dennis — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:19:11 +0000

This is so simple yet I cannot get it to work.
Have added the printer but test page will not print
Got this message from Properties:
Printing: Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds…

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By: drew

drew — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:30:52 +0000

THANKS SO MUCH this is a really great and simple way of showing. Much better than other sites!

By: Kris Rao

Kris Rao — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:45:18 +0000

I too have installed Ubuntu for the first time and am very new. My home set up is that I have a Linkstation with a print server and an HP Officejet v40.

Even though the Linkstation has Linux powering it - do I need to connect to the Linkstation with Windows Printer (SMB). Assuming the answer is yes I have set:

Host = Workgroup
Printer = guest@Linkstation/lp

You have not specified what the username and password should be - I am able to navigate to the Linkstation files from the Ubuntu computer with no problem (access is not restricted?. Peter Diachun asked this same question on June 30, 2005.