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HP Device Manager doesnt show my printer

Asked by Alvaro Leal (Effenberg0x0)

I have a HP PSC1350 connected through USB to a Windows XP Box. This PC is connected to a router. All other machines are laptops running Ubuntu Hardy that use Wi-Fi to connect to the same router. All laptops are able to see the Windows disk shares and printer.

I have started HP Device Manager and used the CUPS Web Interface to add the printer as smb://192.168.1.100/HPPSC1350. It worked for all machines. However, everytime I start HP Device Manager it still tells me there is no printer detected. When I try to make it search 192.168.1.100 it wont find anything. I used Firestarter to disable Firewall and also disabled all Firewall and AV software on the XP box but it didn't help. The router log shows no blocked traffic, I have put noth machines in dmz and forwarded the used port ranged but still it won't work.

Any tips?

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

This is because for the Device Manager to correctly function with the printer the printer needs to be using the hp:// backend. However HPLIP does not support connecting to shared windows printers. For this you'll want to do a search such as:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&hs=W7J&q=ubuntu+print+to+windows+shared+printer&btnG=Search

Sorry I couldn't help more.

Aaron

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