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>Printing To Windows PCs</TITLE
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>Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO</TH
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>3. Printing To Windows PCs</H1
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>3.1. Connecting To Windows</H2
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>Figure 2. Network Printing</B
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> SMB and CIFS are the Windows file and printer sharing protocols.
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We use Samba to speak to the Windows PCs using these protocols. Before
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configuring CUPS we should make sure we can connect to the Windows
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PC with <B
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CLASS="command"
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>smbclient</B
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>, the Samba SMB/CIFS client
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<A
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HREF="printing_to_windows.html#netprint"
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>Figure 2</A
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>.
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</P
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> The following is an example of creating a connection to a Windows
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PC:
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>/usr/bin/smbclient -L rice -U fred
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added interface ip=10.6.7.234 bcast=10.6.7.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
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Got a positive name query response from 10.6.7.8 ( 10.6.7.8 )
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Password: (not shown)
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Sharename Type Comment
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PRINTER$ Disk
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INKJET Printer
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STUFF Disk
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IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
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</PRE
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> The command shown asks for a list of shares on a Windows PC
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named <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"rice"</SPAN
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>, with the user id <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"fred"</SPAN
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The result shows a printer named <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"INKJET"</SPAN
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>.
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</P
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> If Windows naming service is unavailable you will need to specify
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the IP address of the Windows PC with the <TT
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CLASS="option"
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>-I</TT
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> switch as in:
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>/usr/bin/smbclient -I 10.6.7.8 -L rice -N
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</PRE
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> For more information see the Samba documentation about
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>smbclient</B
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> usage.
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NAME="to_windows_cupsconfig"
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>3.2. CUPS Configuration</H2
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> Once you have found a Windows printer you may configure CUPS. First
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verify that your installation of CUPS has the smb backend with the
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following command:
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>ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
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>
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</P
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> If this file does not exist create it by issuing the following:
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>ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
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> The following is an example of setting up the printer shown above.
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You will have to become root or use <B
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CLASS="command"
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>sudo</B
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> to execute these commands:
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>/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p RicePrinter -v smb://fred:mypass@rice/INKJET -P /root/inkjet.ppd
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/usr/bin/enable RicePrinter
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/usr/sbin/accept RicePrinter
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/usr/sbin/lpadmin -d RicePrinter
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> As mentioned above, bash has a builtin command called
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>enable</B
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>, so bash users must use the full path
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(<B
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CLASS="command"
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>/usr/bin/enable</B
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>) to enable printers.
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> The <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"lpadmin"</SPAN
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> command sets up a the shared Windows printer by
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giving the username, password, netbios name and printer name as a single
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parameter.
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See <A
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HREF="getting_started.html#basicprconfig"
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>Section 2.3</A
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> for a further explanation of the commands
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above.
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> Your printer is now ready to test. Send a file to the printer with
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the <B
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CLASS="command"
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>lp</B
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> command followed by a filename, or
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by printing a document from within an application.
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