Comments on: Ubuntu Guide For Windows Users: Connecting To Shared Printers On Windows Computers

By: Nordite

Nordite — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:45:13 +0000

I installed the HPlip but that did not work

By: April

April — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:37:43 +0000

I am using ubuntu 9.10 with a HP printer and have installed the hp linux printing and imaging system (hplip) through synaptic and am able to print wireless. Works great for me.

By: Nordite

Nordite — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:50:02 +0000

@Danna: I can almost connect to mine. I get as far as [Workgroup]/Laptop/but does not see the printer. Has anyone seen this before?

By: spruit

spruit — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:19:05 +0000

Is there a way to configure the printer in Ubuntu without using the ip address of the Windows pc. I have dynamic ips…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:28 +0000

Help! I,m a windows person new to Ubuntu and I'm trying to connect linux laptop to printer on my home network (works fine with windows vista laptops). I have something called cups server on the linux machine that is configured to talk to network printer at office. However on home network all I get is a cryptic message:

"There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-forbidden'."

What does this mean? What is forbidden? Me or the printer…

Any suggestions are welcome.

By: Ace

Ace — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:29:50 +0000

I am going nuts here. I have an Epson Stylus CX6000 hooked up to my Ubuntu 9.04 PC. I can share it with other Ubuntu computers on my network, but not Vista. I tried putting in the network address when setting up the printer, but it still doesn't work. Any ideas?

By: sharva

sharva — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:11:17 +0000

I installed hp printer with hplip3.9.8 to ubuntu. Now it's printing in html/xml/txt
but I need to use ms office & open org. Pls help me on this problem.

By: James Craig

James Craig — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:45:15 +0000

So far I have been unable to get any Ubuntu PCs to share anything! I tried all the tricks above for Ubuntu 9.04.
If I use a Windows XP box for my gateway to the INTERNET any Ubuntu PC or Windows PC on my network can access the INTERNET. Windows PCs can share hard drives and printers connected to any Windows PC but Ubuntu does not share anything to or from themselves or Windows.
Conclusion; I am not doing something right or networking with Ubuntu needs more time to develop networking for small business or large business networks in the world.
I have a wired and wireless network with Verizon wireless broadband VIA the pc 5750 WWAN modem.
My small business needs Ubuntu to work so I don't have to keep sending my small profit to M.S.

By: ANWAR KEMAL

ANWAR KEMAL — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:02:21 +0000

Same here, JAMES CRAIG!!!I also tried the suggestions made be Matt Williams & RJC, but they don't work. Ubuntu 9.04 tries to search for drivers…in my case for CANON MP 130…& doesn't find it so gives me generic text-only printer and its driver. In the end, when prompted to test-print a page, says. "There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-document-format-not-supported.' I don't have a clue what that means!!! I sure hope, someone has found the answer and makes the effort writing down that here.
Millions of thanks to all who contribute with tutorials on this site. I'm a real newbie and have learnt a lot from the tutorials and suggestions from WTN. Keep up the wonderful work!!!

By: James Craig

James Craig — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:19:49 +0000

AWW shucks! 9.04 did not give me those screens. Still trying to get printer sharing and hard drive sharing to work.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:36:29 +0000

I have an Epson USB printer networked through a BT Homehub. It works fine on three separate computers however, I have to disable "bidirectional support" in Windows XP for it to print more than one document. This is fine for windows but I can find no way of disabling "bidirectional support" in Ubuntu so on these machines I have to turn off the printer and turn it back on again after each document is printed.

PLEASE does anyone know how to disable "bidirectional support" in Ubuntu (in Windows it is in the printer properties port settings)

By: RJC

RJC — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:16:42 +0000

Dave:

You're in the right place. Try taking the name of the workgroup that the windows computer is in, the name of the windows computer, and the shared name of the printer and put them in the box labeled "smb://" as "[WORKGROUP]/[COMPUTER-NAME]/[PRINTER-NAME]". That was all I needed to do. Based on the comments above, you might also try using the ip address of the windows computer, "[IP ADDRESS]/[PRINTER-NAME]". I believe the Verify button will check if a connection can be made with the settings you supply.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:38:32 +0000

Hi, I've been having trouble with getting this all set up and was hoping that maybe someone could help me. I have Vista Business on my pc and ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. My problem is that whilst the screenshot above is all nice and pretty and looks exactly like every tutorial and forum that I have seen describes. However it looks absolutely nothing like what I see when I open my printer manager. Screenshot: http://img124.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshottpm.png Does anyone know how to change or configure this to be like the one above or have any idea how to set up the printer share using this manager? Thanks.

By: Rajamani

Rajamani — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:05:29 +0000

hai
plase help me.i am domain user.i have logging in domain user that is not have administrator permission.but my printer have sharing.how add the printer to ubundu

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:00:04 +0000

Just what I needed – Thanks