Problems printing to shared Epson AL-1100 Laser

I have an Epson Laser shared from an OSX server running 10.4.10. When sharing a printer in this way the print dialogue at the Tiger client does not include any of the 'Printer Settings' options. To give users the advanced settings they need for features such as manual duplexing and colour management, I installed the Epson driver and set up the printer on each client as an Appleshare printer, specifying the locally installed Epson driver.
Now I have introduced some Leopard clients into the mix I can't find any way to specify a local driver. Has anyone else come across a similar problem and figured out a workaround?

Just to close off this thread. I've been in conversation with Epson support (they are very good in the UK). We've worked through the usual update all drivers and printer firmware, reset everything, repair permissions etc. The driver versions in Leopard and Tiger are the same but there is some networking problem in Leopard as I can get the printer working when directly attached to a Leopard mac but not when shared from either a Tiger or Leopard mac.
I've decided to roll the affected clients back to Tiger. Leopard isn't ready to meet our small business needs at the moment.

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Thomas
Wow - thanks for such a comprehensive post.
I have Aperture and a 2400 so this information is exceptionally useful to me.
Again - thanks for caring and sharing
Brian

Problems Printing to Shared Windows Printer

After upgrading to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), I can no longer print to my HP DeskJet 5150 printer from my Apple MacBookPro laptop. This Deskjet printer is NOT directly connected to the laptop. Instead, it's directly connected to my Windows PC (via USB port). This printer is shared out from the Windows PC.
I see the following error messages in the Printer Queue display every time I try to print something to that Windows shared printer:
"Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED"
"Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds..."
In addition, every print attempt requires me to enter my Windows authentication credentials:
userid (on my Windows PC)
password (on my Windows PC)
I am absolutely sure that I have entered those credentials correctly. Yet, the error message above would seem to imply that Windows rejected my credentials for some reason. On the Windows side, the Security Event log entries appear fine (no corresponding failure gets logged when the print attempt fails).
Of course, my printing to the shared out from Windows PC WORKED FLAWLESSLY under "Tiger" (Mac OS X 10.4.x). My problem started immediately after I upgraded to "Leopard" (Mac OS X 10.5) on October 28, 2007.
Please advise me how to resolve this printing to a Windows shared printer problem.
Thanks in advance,

I'm having the same problem. Sharing an HPLJ5MP on WinXPSP2 box, and printer sharing was working fine under Tiger. After installing Leopard, can see and set up printer, but attempts to print test page are thwarted. Log:
I [05/Nov/2007:15:27:27 -0800] [Job 495] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 312)
I [05/Nov/2007:15:27:27 -0800] [Job 495] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb (PID 313)
E [05/Nov/2007:15:27:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:27:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:27:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:27:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:27:29 -0800] [Job 495] Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...
E [05/Nov/2007:15:28:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:28:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:28:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:28:29 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:28:29 -0800] [Job 495] Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...
E [05/Nov/2007:15:29:30 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:29:30 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:29:30 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:29:30 -0800] [Job 495] Connection failed: NTSTATUS_CONNECTIONREFUSED
E [05/Nov/2007:15:29:30 -0800] [Job 495] Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...
E [05/Nov/2007:15:30:30 -0800] [Job 495] Unable to connect to CIFS host after (tried 3 times)
E [05/Nov/2007:15:30:30 -0800] PID 313 (/usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb) stopped with status 1!
I [05/Nov/2007:15:30:30 -0800] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
I [05/Nov/2007:15:30:30 -0800] [Job 495] Backend returned status 1 (failed)
I [05/Nov/2007:15:30:30 -0800] Saving printers.conf...
Hope someone can post the fix...

Problems Printing to Shared Windows Printer Via SAMBA (foomatic error 255)

I can NOT print from my MacBookPro to a printer that's shared out from my Windows PC. Of course, printing to this same printer from my PC works fine.
Please help me resolve this printing problem.
Read on for more details regarding my printing woes!
I can successfully setup my printer on the MAC side using the Printer Setup utility. I see the shared out printer on my MAC; I can pick the printer's manufacturer and model. Everything looks ok regarding the setup of the printer on the MAC side.
However, when I try to print a file from the MAC, the printer never prints. The print job appears to get queued on the MAC side. However, after a few seconds, the printer queue displays "foomatic-rip stopped unexpectedly with error 255" (if I selected a foomatic printer driver from the hpijs). Otherwise, it says "NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY" error (if I selected a gutenprint driver instead).
The PC's Windows event logs show no problems. Indeed, the Security event log shows successful authentication & access to the printer.
The MAC's CUPS error_log displays the these error messages:
GutenPrint fails with NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY error, then says Cannot connect to SAMBA host
hpjisGhostscriptFoomatic fails with "The process 'foomatic-rip' stopped unexpectedly with status 255"
Later, I will post the exact entries from this log (I am currently separated from my MAC laptop until later this evening).
My Apple MacBookPro is running MAC OS X 10.4.11 ("Tiger"). The printer is an HP DeskJet 5150 connected via a USB port to my DELL 8400 PC. This desktop PC is running Microsoft's "Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2").
Based on reading other posts (here) and at the Linux Open Foundation (printing), I have already done the following:
Installed gutenprint;
Installed foomatic (foomatic-rip v3.42.2.15);
Installed ghostscript (espgs v7.07.1); &
Installed hpijs (hpijs v2.7.10).
NOTE: This is NOT the same problem that I posted earlier regarding inability to print to a shared printer with Leopard (MAC OS X 10.5.0). Today's posting deals with my inability to print to the shared printer from Tiger (MAC OS X 10.4.11).
NOTE: This may be a "red herring" but you may need this additional background to help resolve my printing problem. Originally, I ran "Tiger" (MAC OS X 10.4.10) on my MacBookPro laptop. Of course, networked printing worked fine at this point. On October 28, 2007, I upgraded to "Leopard" (MAC OS X 10.5.0). Leopard was a "disaster" for me (printing, networking & many other problems). On November 9, 2007, I "punted" and re-installed "Tiger" (MAC OS X 10.4.10) from Apple's original CD. On November 15, 2007, I upgraded to MAC OS X 10.4.11 via Apple's software update utility. I vaguely recollect that networked printing was working after I returned back to Tiger.
/s/
Tony H.

As promised in my initial post regarding my printing problem, here are the actual error messages displayed in the Print Queue (Hp5150) and the "cups" error_log when I try to print any file to my HP 5150 that's directly connected to my DELL PC (Windows XP Pro) but shared out so that my MacBookPro should be able to print to it.
Printer Queue Hp5150 window displays:
=========================
The process "foomatic-rip" stopped unexpectedly with status 255.
/var/log/cups/error_log displays:
=====================
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Job 3 queued on 'hp5150' by 'anthonyhackenberg'.
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftops (PID 681) for job 3.
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 682) for job 3.
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 683) for job 3.
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb (PID 684) for job 3.
E [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] [Job 3] Connection failed with error NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY
E [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] [Job 3] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip line 215.
E [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] PID 683 stopped with status 255!
I [04/Jan/2008:20:25:17 -0500] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
E [04/Jan/2008:20:26:17 -0500] [Job 3] Connection failed with error NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY
E [04/Jan/2008:20:27:17 -0500] [Job 3] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: Connection failed with error NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY
E [04/Jan/2008:20:28:17 -0500] [Job 3] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: Connection failed with error NTSTATUS_NOMEMORY
Again, the system Event logs on the Windows XP side show no error messages. In particular, the Security Event Log shows that authentication was successful; so, the MacBookPro's client process was granted access to the printer on the DELL PC side of the transaction.
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Layout
Scheduler
Paper Handling
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I have just bought my first Mac, a macbook and i'm having a few problems with it printing on my Epson R200. The R200 is shared through one of my XP machines, the macbook can recognise it and print through it, but any advanced features such as print quality, borderless, CD Printing etc are not showing up.
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