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HPLIP and Windows printer via Samba

Asked by Gece

I own a Home Server (Ve-Hotech VHS-4 - see at the address http://en.ve-hotech.com/index.php/product/specification) based on Ubuntu server 8.04 on which I have connected a printer (HP photosmart C4480) that I share on my 2 pc (1 linux pc (openSUSE 11.1) and 1 Windows XP pc).
On my Linux pc , I have configured a Windows printer via Samba using CUPS and it works fine.
However my question is as follows: I read in your knowledge base (at the address http://hplipopensource.com/node/272) that "Printers that are shared via CUPS from another Linux PC on a network are supported by HPLIP". If I am not wrong, this corresponds to my situation. However I cannot succeed to see my printer in the HP Device Manager when connected to my server (HPLIP software version: 3.9.6 / device manager version: 15.0 (Qt4)).
Would you have an explanation and can you help?
Thanks in advance

Gece

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Gece (gece) said : 		#1

Update:

I just discovered that printing does not work with hplip-hpcups drivers but needs hplip-hpijs ones. To avoid conflict, I had to downgrade HPLIP to version 2.8.7 with device manager software version 14.0. However my question remains.
Thanks

Gece

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

The phrase:

"Printers that are shared via CUPS from another Linux PC on a network are supported by HPLIP"

is not 100% correct. The your linux system should be able to see the CUPS shared printer, however HPLIP does not support this configuration.

Sorry for the confusion.

Aaron

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Gece (gece) said : 		#3

Thanks for the reply.