Is someone has succeed (Slitaz stable 3.0) to configure a printer (HP) shared by Windows XP, with URI like the following ? smb://WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a My printer is correctly shared, and i can print over network with Puppy Linux, but it fails with Slitaz ;-( My printer server (windows XP) is reachable from slitaz (ping OK)
Here are the steps : - Install package (smbclient, hplip and all dependencies) - > ln -sf /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (it's not an intuitive step, but found in other forums) - Configure printer with Cups web Interface. - Choose "Windows share", HP driver (my PhotosmartB109a is well known in the list provided by HPLIP)
I tried URI with many syntaxes. For example : smb://WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a smb://WORKGROUP/hostname/PhotoSmartB109a (with hostname declared in /etc/hosts) smb://winuser:winpasswd@WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a smb://slitazuser:slitazpasswd@WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a smb://192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a and many other combination.
But each time, printing "test page" or "real document" fails : Printing error
I don't know if it related, but when I try to configure it manually with smbclient ... i get the following loop error : > init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to IS0-8859-15 not supported > init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE to ASCII > init_iconv: Conversion from UTF8 to IS0-8859-15 not supported > init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from ASCII to ASCII > ...... The "init_iconv" issue seems to be known, but I don't understand in other forums the way to fix it ...
Thanks for any idea I think, it's the last step to allow me to switch to Slitaz (I currently use Puppy Linux)
First i follow steps described in "http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:printer" and restarted cups daemon, but it was not sufficient. I also needed to : - install "samba-pam" and "pyneighborhood" packages (Appearance of CUPS web interface has changed after that) - add hostname of my windows server in /etc/hosts even if I use only IP address in smb URI - browse shares on my Windows PC, with pyneighborhood GUI which detects windows "WORKGROUP"
After all these steps, all print tests work !
But to much memory consumption to burn new LiveCD with writeiso ... (ISO~150MB) RAM=768MB and home=usb !!!! I will need 1GB RAM to suceed !!! Arghhhhh ! No HDD in my PC.