Mavericks + Windows share printer

Hi all!
After upgrading from OS X 10.8 to OS X 10.9 there is a problem with the network printer it stopped working.
On OS X 10.8 my printer Laser Shot LBP1120 has worked perfectly, it is connected to a PC running Windows XP in order to be able to print from a OS X, I used the printer driver for Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS.
After updating to OS X 10.9 missing base of drivers and I can no longer use this ligament for printer.
Could you please tell me where to download driver for the printer Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS for Mac OS 10.9.
Thanks in advance!

Was just going to edit, but I guess I waited too long.
I'm connecting via gigabit ethernet, and while my Mac has troubles with using the shares, other Windows computers are not.
Not anything I've particularly noticed too much before (dont spend much time in Activity Monitor unless Im having an issue), and not even sure its related, but smbd just started using 99% of CPU, and (maybe this is normal) noticed in Console theres entries for smbd (and corresponding to when I was using cifs I guess, smbd.smb1) in /var/log/Performance.
Other things in Console I saw for smb is:
smbd[10940]: XPC: peer event: , ipc error: Connection invalid
smbd[10940]: BUG in libdispatch: 13A603 - 2076 - 0x0
Finder[11656]: nsc_smb XPC: handle_event error : < Connection invalid >
KernelEventAgent[46]: tid 54485244 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Share', from '//user@server/Share', not responding
kernel[0]: smbfs_lookup: Server failed Query Info 57

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# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
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; printable = yes
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; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
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[axelman]
path = /home/axelman
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thanx to all
axelmang

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Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 667 packets, 79977 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 157 packets, 20724 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
So from my (very little) knowledge this appears correct (I think)... However it appears that something is blocking access somewhere.

Printing to Shared Windows XP Printer

Windows XP, SP2, latest patches with a USB conected HP 2550L printer, shared PostScript Driver. Unix printing extensions added, TCP/IP service Automatic and Started
I first selected the printer via Windows Printing, selected workgroup, the PC and the printer, set the type of printer, etc. set the username/password of the admin account on the PC, saved in Keychain. All print jobs ended in SAMBA errors.
I thought maybe I had fat fingered the password, checked the keychain pw anbd it was correct. Still no printing - same SAMBA error. I erased the password from keychain., deleted the printer and tried to re-install. Now the printer no longer shows up after the PC NB name is chosen.
I tried the lpr://PCIP_address/printer_sharename, the printer always says "Stopped", I Start it and the bar "flashes" for a few seconds and the printer goes back to Stopped.
I haved also restarted the TCP/IP spooler, same result - no visible printer, no IP printing.
And finally, I can ping the PC from terminal.
Geez, I thought Macs were almost automatic!
Anyone have a clue as to what to do next? Logs to look at? Anything?

Using -NL means no login - even though it tells me there is an authentication error, all available shares show up. Here's what mine looks like -
Sharename Type Comment
My Documents Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
D$ Disk Default share
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
SharedDocs Disk
Epson900 Printer Epson Stylus COLOR 900 ESC/P 2
C Disk
D Disk
Socket_4ML Printer HP LaserJet 4L/4ML PostScript
session request to 192.168.200.15 failed (Called name not present)
The columns probably don't show up correctly, but you get the idea.
So, I think the issue is your Windows setup. Do you have one or more firewalls running without setting them up for sharing? Do you have an account on Windows that uses the exact same username and password as you use on the Mac (this is conceptually that way Samba is supposed to work - single login used for all resources)? Are all computers in the same workgroup? Set this on OS X in The Directory Access utility.
Hope this helps.

"samba-discovery". An automounter script for windows shares

Hi.
At the last lan party I found it quite annoying to mount samba shares by hand all the time (as I don't use a smb capable browser with fuse like dolphin or the like). So here's what I've come up with. Explenations on how it works are at the start of the script. You can also download it directly from here. Basically you run it and anything available on the lan will be tidily mounted to /mnt/samba-discovery/*.
#!/bin/bash
# Hi and welcome to this samba/windows share automounting script.
# It will:
# - Scan the network for windows/samba hosts.
# - Mount all their available guest shares
# - If rerun it will check if all shares are still accesible
# - Unmount everything if you use the -u option
# It will not:
# - Work on password protected shares. No idea what will happen,
# I guess mount.cifs will spit an error but the script will continue
# Run it without options to mount/rescan, use -u to unmount everything.
# Before running it please specify the options below.
# Post questions on the Archlinux forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=596979#p596979
# MOST IMPORTANTLY: If it eats all your files for breakfast, it's none
# of my responsibility! It should be quite safe though because it's
# always checking if a dir is empty before deleting it.
### Options
# Specify the name of your network adapter (e.g. eth0):
netiface='eth0'
# Specify which range of IPs you're interested in (less is faster)
lowend=1
highend=20
### Code
# Prepare samba-discovery folder
if [[ ! -d /mnt/samba-discovery/ ]]; then
mkdir /mnt/samba-discovery
fi
# Unmount all shares and clean up directories using -u
umountcount=0
uhostcount=0
if [[ $1 == "-u" ]]; then
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
dirs=(/mnt/samba-discovery/*)
(( ${#dirs[@]} )) || sharefolders=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $sharefolders == 1 ]]; then
for i in /mnt/samba-discovery/*/*; do
umount "$i" 2>/dev/null
cd "$i" 2>/dev/null
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || dirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $dirempty == 1 ]]; then
echo ">>> warning: target directory not empty although share unmounted"
echo ">>> aborting. please investigate directory:"
echo " $i"
exit 1
else
dirempty=0
rm -R "$i"
echo " share on $i unmounted, folder removed."
((umountcount++))
fi
done
for i in /mnt/samba-discovery/*; do
umount "$i" 2>/dev/null
cd "$i" 2>/dev/null
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || dirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $dirempty == 1 ]]; then
echo ">>> warning: target directory not empty although all shares unmounted"
echo ">>> aborting. please investigate directory:"
echo " $i"
exit 1
else
dirempty=0
rm -R "$i"
echo " parent folder $i removed."
((uhostcount++))
fi
done
echo "-> Removed $umountcount shares and $uhostcount parent folders"
exit 0
else
echo "no parent folder found, nothing to unmount"
exit 0
fi
fi
# Normal run. Scan for shares which are no longer on the network...
if [[ ! $1 == "" ]]; then
echo "Invalid option. Aborted"
exit 1
fi
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
dirs=(/mnt/samba-discovery/*)
(( ${#dirs[@]} )) || sharefolders=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $sharefolders == 1 ]]; then
echo ':: Cleaning up orphaned shares...'
cleancount=0
for i in /mnt/samba-discovery/*/*; do
if [[ ! $(ls $i 2>/dev/null) ]]; then
umount "$i" 2>/dev/null
cd "$i" 2>/dev/null
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || dirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $dirempty == 1 ]]; then
echo ">>> warning: target directory not empty although share unmounted"
echo ">>> aborting. please investigate directory:"
echo " $i"
exit 1
else
dirempty=0
rm -R "$i"
echo " share on $i no longer accesible, removed."
((cleancount++))
fi
else
if [[ ! $(cat /proc/mounts | grep "cifs" | awk '{print $2}' | grep $i) ]]; then
cd "$i" 2>/dev/null
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || dirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $dirempty == 1 ]]; then
echo ">>> warning: target directory not empty although nothing mounted there"
echo ">>> aborting. please investigate directory:"
echo " $i"
exit 1
else
dirempty=0
rm -R "$i"
echo " nothing mounted on $i, removed."
((cleancount++))
fi
fi
fi
done
echo "-> Cleaned out $cleancount shares"
fi
# ... and then scan for new hosts and mount shares
echo ':: Scanning for new hosts and shares...'
netaddr=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F ":" '{print $2}' | awk -F "." '{print $1"."$2"."$3}')
hostcount=0
sharecount=0
for ((ip=$lowend; ip<=$highend; ip++)); do
printf " scanning $netaddr.$ip...\r"
if (( $(nmap -PN -p139,445 "$netaddr.$ip" | grep -e "139/tcp open" -e "445/tcp open" | wc -l) == 2 )); then
hostwinname="$( nmblookup -A $netaddr.$ip | grep "<00>" | grep -v "<GROUP>" | awk '{print $1}')"
hostdirname="$(echo $hostwinname | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])"
echo " found $hostwinname on $netaddr.$ip"
IFS=$'\n' shares=($(smbclient -N -gL \\\\$netaddr.$ip\\ 2>&1 | grep -e "Disk|" | grep -v '\$' | awk -F "|" '{print $2}'))
for share in ${shares[*]}; do
sharedir="$(echo $share | sed s/\ /_/g | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])"
if [[ "$(cat /proc/mounts | grep ",unc=\\\\\\\\$netaddr.$ip\\\\$share,")" ]]; then
echo " share "$share" already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir"
else
if [[ ! -d "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname" ]]; then
mkdir "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname"
#echo "$hostwinname:$hostdirname:$netaddr.$ip" >> /mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/ip.txt
fi
if [[ ! -d "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir" ]]; then
mkdir "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir"
else
cd "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir"
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || dirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ ! $dirempty == 1 ]]; then
echo ">>> warning: mounting directory not empty although share not mounted!"
echo ">>> aborting. please investigate directory:"
echo " /mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir"
exit 1
fi
dirempty=0
fi
mount "//192.168.1.$ip/$share" "/mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir" -o guest 2>/dev/null
echo " mounted "$share" in /mnt/samba-discovery/$hostdirname/$sharedir"
((sharecount++))
fi
done
((hostcount++))
fi
done
echo "-> Mounted $sharecount shares from $hostcount hosts."
# Remove samba-discovery folder if it is empty
if [[ -d /mnt/samba-discovery/ ]]; then
cd "/mnt/samba-discovery/"
shopt -s nullglob dotglob
files=(*)
(( ${#files[*]} )) || sambadirempty=1
shopt -u nullglob dotglob
if [[ sambadirempty == 1 ]]; then
rm -R /mnt/samba-discovery/
fi
fi
Here's some sample output of how it will look, including one orphaned share and a new one on a rerun of the script:
[root@Mothership samba-discovery]# /home/medja/scripts/samba-discovery
:: Cleaning up orphaned shares...
share on /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/conflict_denied_ops no longer accesible, removed.
-> Cleaned out 1 shares
:: Scanning for new hosts and shares...
found BLACKRABBIT on 192.168.1.2
share CD-Images already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/cd-images
share CD-Images2 already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/cd-images2
share Filme already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/filme
share Filme2 already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/filme2
mounted Music Library in /mnt/samba-discovery/blackrabbit/music_library
found MOTHERSHIP on 192.168.1.4
share space already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/mothership/space
found EEE on 192.168.1.5
share SharedDocs already mounted in /mnt/samba-discovery/eee/shareddocs
-> Mounted 1 shares from 3 hosts.
Last edited by Shapeshifter (2009-08-07 18:51:05)

thanks a lot, i wanted to write that script for a long time, but never got around. one thing though, you shouldn't mount stuff in a subfolder of /mnt because /mnt itself should be kept for such purposes (unix file hierarchy standards, afaik)
but that should be easily fixed by myself
cheers
Phil
Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-08-07 21:42:46)

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