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Can't mount Windows 7 Share printers

Asked by cary holmes

When I open System-Administration-Printing-Add-Network Printer-Windows Printer via SAMBA-Browse I can see all the windows workstations and windows servers in the network. However when I double click on any of them none of the shared printers show up.

I have other linux workstations installed, ie Mandriva, and it has no problems printing to the windows shared printers so I know it is a Ubuntu configuration issue.

I saw a article, though I can not find it now, that explained how to manually edit the smb.conf file for windows print sharing and windows file sharing. I would like to get a hold of this article once more.

Also if I go to Places-Network all the windows servers appear but I get the following error if I attempt to open "Unable to mount location" Failed to retrieve share list from server. It seems as though there is a authentication problem but it isn't clear why.

Please assist

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

smbtree

Do you see the printer share?

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cary holmes (carys-holmes) said : 		#2

I executed smbtree in a terminal window ... it returns nothing. Not familiar with smbtree so I may be executing it incorrectly.

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cary holmes (carys-holmes) said : 		#3

I had my network hub unplugged ... when I type in smbtree it displays all the Windows Servers. The one I am interested in shows as follows.

         \\CSHW7-MAIN-B1
failed negprot: ERRnomem

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cary holmes (carys-holmes) said : 		#4

Well I found an article explaining how to install a WIndows Printer using CUPS, ironically it worked the first time.

SAMBA seems to be much more difficult to configure. Nevertheless I will try to figure it out.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

How is that ironic in any way?

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cary holmes (carys-holmes) said : 		#6

It is ironic because SAMBA has a gui interface that is meant to make mounting printers and file shares simple, instead the installing CUPS, which does not have a gui interface, is more simple. That's ironic.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Thats not ironic at all. It'd be ironic if CUPS was called wontwork but it made it work. The description you gave is not ironic in any way.

Using a gui isn't always the easiest way, users just seem to prefer them as what can be achieved in one command in terminal scares them and their hands are still spot-welded to the mouse after years of windows use but that doesn't make using something harder an ironic situation.

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cary holmes (carys-holmes) said : 		#8

It is a matter of opinion. Since gui interfaces are intended to make task easier it is totally ironic in every way that a more manual process was much easier in this case.

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