Sharing out a printer via SMB on Lion

I have a complex situation where we share out a printer from a Mac workstation to a windows computer in another location. It worked fine until we replaced the Snow Leopard Mac with a Lion one. Now, the windows computer no longer sees the printer, even though the configuration is the same: SMB file sharing on, Printer shared out via printer sharing. I can see the SMB file shares, but not the printer.
Unfortunately, it has to be SMB and not Bonjour since the Windows computer is on another subnet. Is there any additional configuration we have to do to get this to work?

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Print Service- SMB - Can't get jobs to print on shared HP printer via SMB

I have been banging my head on the wall on this one, and a call to Apple support ended up with a lot of diags followed by “It must be the printer driver, call HP”
Has anyone successfully shared HP Officejet/Deskjet/Photosmart printers from Mac OS X 10.5.x via SMB?
HP Officejet 6110 (also tried with Deskjet and Photosmart printers with similar results)
Connected to Mac OS X 10.5.2 server via USB
Drivers tested: HP All-in-one, Gutenburg, Foomatic
Shared via Bonjour, IPP, and SMB for testing (Need just SMB for deployment)
Connected to with OS X 10.5.2 non-server version
Via Bonjour/IPP connects fine and prints with any of the above 3 drivers
Via SMB connects and sends print jobs that never print
The Server is receiving the print jobs, you can see it in the log, and if you have cover pages turned on you get a cover page for each job
But, the job never actually prints anything
I don't understand why it would be the driver since the same driver prints out fine via bonjour/IPP
Also, if I connect the printer to a windows box and share it via SMB that driver works fine
Connecting to the same SMB share from windows with the HP all-in-one driver produces the same results, the Server receives the print but outputs nothing.
Using the generic/text-only driver will print just fine (can’t find a generic text driver for the Mac for testing)

At least I try...
My setup is: Mac mini with OS X Server 10.5.2, HP DeskJet 895Cxi connected to the Mac via USB using the HP printer driver from the 2.7.1 package (yes, I had to downgrade(!) the drivers: the drivers bundled with Leopard do not(!) work with some (many?!) DeskJet printers as many others have also already discovered - see the postings in this forum elsewhere...).
The server is configured as a PDC. Samba is up and running, I can login as a domain user from the Windows clients.
Local printing with this setup works fine.
However, Windows clients can't print: same symptoms as yours. A cover page get's printed, but the spool data seems to end up in a black hole...
All I can see in the logs is the call to the "gziptoany" filter - and CUPS claims that it "exited with no errors". For me, it looks like it's eating the whole thing...
Upto now, I didn't find any solution in the net. I found some references that it should be possible to explicitely setup a "raw" printing queue and use this for the Windows clients, or alternatively to setup the clients with Postscript drivers.
Both seems reasonable to me, but these postings refer to Linux distributions and older software versions.
So for now I'm wading through the CUPS and Samba documentation, because I want to try to understand how these beasts are meant to be used and what Apple did to them.
I hope I will find a solution soon.
My "Plan B" is to get some nice little print server.
At first, when the printer was connected to one of the Windows clients, OS X could use it without problems even with the current drivers (HP 3.3.1 as well as the Gutenprint driver). So I would expect that some cheap "mini print server for Windows boxes" will also do for the server... oh, yes, still somewhat optimistic about getting something for my money...
If somebody else would be so kind and might try to help - here is an extract from my error_log with the - IMHO - relevant portion:
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: file = 1/2
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) dnssdRegisterPrinter(HPDeskJet895Cxi) update
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) job-sheets=standard,none
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) banner_page = 0
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(0)="HPDeskJet895Cxi"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(1)="5"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(2)="webbasan"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(3)="smbprn.00000002 Test Page"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(4)="1"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(5)="job-uuid=urn:uuid:b82da924-a748-3a0e-4dcd-92fb99aec162"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(6)="/private/var/spool/cups/d00005-002"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(0)="<CFProcessPath>"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(1)="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/cache"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(2)="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(3)="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(4)="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(5)="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/private/var/spool/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(6)="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(7)="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(8)="CUPS_STATEDIR=/private/var/run/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(9)="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(10)="[email protected]"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(11)="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.3.6"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(12)="TMPDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(13)="USER=root"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(14)="CUPS_SERVER=/private/var/run/cupsd"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(15)="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(16)="IPP_PORT=631"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(17)="CHARSET=utf-8"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(18)="LANG=de.UTF8"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(19)="APPLE_LANGUAGE"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(20)="PPD=/private/etc/cups/ppd/HPDeskJet895Cxi.ppd"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(21)="RIPMAXCACHE=8m"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(22)="CONTENT_TYPE=application/octet-stream"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(23)="DEVICE_URI=file:///dev/null"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(24)="PRINTER=HPDeskJet895Cxi"
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: filter="/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany"
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: filterfds(0)=( -1 -1 )
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdStartProcess("/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany", 0x134c50, 0xbfffcc08, -1, -1, 23)
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 1 ( -1 -1 )...
I (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany (PID 80361)
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing print pipes ( -1 -1 )...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing status output pipe 23...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 1 ( -1 -1 )...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddSelect: fd=22, read_cb=0x3de59dcf, write_cb=0x0, data=0x128790
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddEvent(event=job-state-changed, dest=0x816600(HPDeskJet895Cxi), job=0x128790(5), text="Job #%d started.", ...)
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) Discarding unused job-state-changed event...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) select_timeout(-1): 11 seconds to process active jobs
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 11 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) PAGE: 1 1
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddEvent(event=job-progress, dest=0x816600(HPDeskJet895Cxi), job=0x128790(5), text="Printed %d page(s).", ...)
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) Discarding unused job-progress event...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) notify_post("com.apple.jobChange")
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 1 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) process_children()
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) PID 80361 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany) exited with no errors.
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 1 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) File 1 is complete.
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) cupsdFinishJob: job->status is 0
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdRemoveSelect: fd=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) cupsdFinishJob: Closing status pipes ( 22 -1 )...
I (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) Completed successfully.
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Printing to windows printer via SMB - Printing garbled text

Hi all.
I have been working on this issue for around 3 hrs this morning and finally figured it out. Thought I'd post what I did to help others with similar issues.
Here's my set up:
I have a PC with HP photosmart printer connected to it. I've a Macbook Pro that I connect to the PC via SMB protocol for file sharing. If I wanted to print from the mac to the printer I had to disconnect the printer form the PC and directly connect it to the mac. I wanted to be able to print from the Mac to the printer via the PC. Should be that hard right as I have already successfully file shared via SMB.
Well it was a little difficult. I did many a search on here and the web and eventually found the following article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2231.html
So, following these steps i tried to print a single page word (office 2008 for mac) doc from the mac. Hey presto! The printer kicked into life and started...
...problem was it spewed out around 20 pages of Garbled text! I tought it might have been print jobs stacked up from the last unsuccessful attemt at doing this but no, no jobs there. Thought it might have been Word/office for mac, etc. so tried to print from Text Edit but same thing.
After hrs of screaming, F'ing & Blinding I finally figured out it was to do with what printer I had it set up on. I went into Print & Fax in System Preferences, highlighted the printer and clicked printer setup tab. In the drop down tab I selected printer model. It was set on Generic.
In the drop down list there it shows a huge selection of printers. my particular model was not there so I chose the closest thing and selected that.
After exiting all that and trying again it worked.
I'm very happy.
Adam

Hi iVirtual, what Mac OS are you running, Leopard (10.5.4) or Tiger (10.4.11)? Also, is your printer directly attached to your pc or is it a network printer directly on the local area network? One last question, do you have a firewall (like Trend Micro or Norton Internet Security) on your PC?
From my Mac running Leopard, I have no problem printing to a printer directly attached to my WindowsXP machine. However, I don't have the same luck from my Tiger Machines.
When I print to any networked printer (by that I mean printers directly attached to the network) from the WindowsXP machine with SP3, I always have to use the IP address. The printer.local name no longer works since I installed SP3.
simonparker, If your printer is directly attached to your PC using a USB cable, I don't think you'll be able to see it with the Bonjour Printer Wizard application. Since your printer is shared, you might check your WORKGROUP name on your PC. Something you might check is this:
Do you have a password on your user account on the PC? You'll probably need a password on your PC account. I don't think you can share anything if you don't have a password (I could be wrong, but it has never worked for me without a password).
On leopard, when I added the printer to the Mac I did this:
1) bring up System Preferences/Print&Fax
2) Press the + sign under the printer list, when the add window pops up, choose the "Windows" icon and you should see your workgroup name in the left list.
3) Choose the workgroup and it should populate with your machine name.
4) Select the machine name in the middle list and you should get a login and password dialog box.
5) Enter your PC's Username and Password.
6) You should see a list of shared printers in the right most list.
7) Select the printer and then select the driver.
Your printer should now be configured on the Mac. I know that I had to enter my PC's user name and password several times before I could print.

Printing via smb in 10.8.2

Hello,
with Lyon 10.7.4 I was able to connect via ethernet to shared printers in my office by something like that:
smb://server/printername
When I did want to print, I had to authenticate to the printer with username and password and then printed.
I then upgraded to 10.8.2, and the same procedure does not work anymore. I can still connect to my printer, I authenticate but then nothing happens in my printing queue. Under the document I want to print, it is written: "maintain for authentication" (I would translate so from italian to english).

Hello,
with Lyon 10.7.4 I was able to connect via ethernet to shared printers in my office by something like that:
smb://server/printername
When I did want to print, I had to authenticate to the printer with username and password and then printed.
I then upgraded to 10.8.2, and the same procedure does not work anymore. I can still connect to my printer, I authenticate but then nothing happens in my printing queue. Under the document I want to print, it is written: "maintain for authentication" (I would translate so from italian to english).

No printing via Bonjour from Windows

Windows PCs can't print via my Tiger server using Bonjour. The printers shared by the server are visible in the Bonjour add new printer wizard. When printing the jobs are sent from the Windows PCs without error messages. But nothing gets printed.
The same queues work fine from Macs.
Looked for the print server logs, but the only logs for the queues are for Appletalk, and they are empty. The server is set not to share any of the print queues via Appletalk.
Tried printing via SMB, but no luck there either.
Printing from Windows directly to the printers using Bonjour works.
Tested turning of the server firewall, but this did not help.
Any ideas waht could be wrong?

Since you can print directly to them from Windows via Bonjour I am wondering how you are sharing the printer from the server. My guess is that it is via 'Print & Fax' of System Preferences. If the printers support LPR, then I would suggest you configure the server printers this way. Go to Server Admin > Print > Settings and enable LPR and 'Show name in Bonjour'. This will give you more control over the printers.
If you have shared the printers this way and since SMB also fails, then I would ensure you haven't enabled print quotas for the queue. This can make jobs vanish.
Even if you are using 'Print & Fax' to share the printer, you still should be able to see the cups error log. In the Server Admin, select Print, then select Logs and then for the Show menu select error log. This is the same log for both methods of shared printers and this should give some clues as to why the Windows spool files are not printing.

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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Printing to a Windows shared printer via SAMBA

I'm trying to setup my mac to print to a printer shared via a Windows PC on my network. I have gone into system preferences / print&fax and added a printer, used the "Advanced" settings on the toolbar, chosen SAMBA and entered the address of the printer as smb://IPADDRESS/printername
When I try to print to this printer, it asks for a username and password. I enter it and then the document briefly appears in the printer queue and then disappears as if it has printed successfully. The document however never appears in my Windows printer queue or actually prints.
CUPS does not return any errors in the CUPS log file. CUPS actually says the printer is idle and accepting jobs.
A friend can print from a windows PC to the printer by using the address \\IPADDRESS\printer name in the manual windows printer setup (the printer does not show up in the browser).
I can also connect to the computer using Leopard's built in SAMBA networking by accessing smb://IPADDRESS so I know the server is active on the network and my username and password work.
Does anybody have any ideas why I am not getting an errors and it's still not working?

Well, that isn't too useful. Try this instead: Adding a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS.
You may find more by selecting Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and searching for articles by keyword.

Can't print to Windows 7 shared printer from Mac OS Lion

Dear all,
I would like to share my experience battling to figure out how to print to Windows 7 shared printer from Mac OS Lion. Myself had this problem and looking throughly in internet without success. But finally I figured out the solution by myself, hope this can help other Mac user with similar problem.
OK, when I try to setup my new MacBook Pro with OS Lion to connect with my Canon MX308 printer attached to desktop with Windows 7 Ultimate,
1. I simply select System Preferences>Print & Scan.
2. Then looks for the + sign just below the box to add a new printer.
3. From the option toolbar above, I select Windows. I have connect this MacBook with my Windows Network, so the workgroup will appear to the left column.
4. After I select this group, the computer list will appear in the middle column
5. Then after I select the computer which my printer connected to, my printer sharename will appear in the right column
6. Last step is to select the printer I want to use.
7. After that it will automatically put your printer sharename to the "Name". And then I select my printer driver at "Print Using" and find my printer manufacturer which is Canon MX300 series from driver lists. Finish!
My printer appear in the Printers List. But the problem is everytime I try to print there will be error message saying "ON HOLD Authentication Required".
This problem start to kill me, I search all around for similar problem, but the solution was never worked for me!
Until just now I figured out accidentally for the solution.
THE PROBLEM LIES ON MY PRINTER DRIVER!!!! Although I have downloaded the most update driver from Apple site and Apple Software update said there is no more update for my system!
The solution for my problem is Gutenprint Printer Driver! You can download this driver at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php, then select for the latest driver gutenprint-5.2.7.dmg. Install this driver!
Then back to Print & Scan in System Preferences, then right click on Printers List box, then choose "Reset Printing System..." to clear the previous failed printers.
After that, repeat the above step 2 - 7. Only for the last step I need to select the Printer Driver for my Canon MX308 for the driver name : "Canon PIXMA MX300 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7"
Now I can sleep as a baby knowing that my printer make a friend with my new Macbook Pro! Hope this will help others!

I have the same setup but with a Canon MX850. This did not fix my problem.

Accessing windows shared printer via mac over wireless

So i want to share my deskjet 812c thats attached to my pc and be able to print via my MBP over wireless. I simply shared teh printer in windows, but have yet been able to figure it out, or to get it to work. It seems that the MBP will not see the printer, so any advice or any walk throughs would be appreciated.
Thanks

To connect to a shared Windows printer, open the Printer Setup Utility and click More Printers. For the new window, click the drop-down and select Windows Printing and then Network Neighborhood. The workgroup name that has been configured in the Windows computer should display. Double-click the workgroup name and then select the computer name from the new list. A new window will appear asking you to enter your Windows account name and password. Enter these details and click OK. Select the printer share name from the list and then for the Printer Model, browse to HP and then to the Deskjet 812C. If this model is not listed, download a copy of Gutenprint 5.0.0 for Mac OS X (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3). This has the 812C which you can use for network printing. With the 812C selected, click Add.
Note that if you are not prompted to authenticate to the Windows computer, then this can impact your ability to connect to shares, especially on XP SP2. You will need to either enable the Guest account or create an account on the Windows computer for the MacBook.

Did I miss something in the fine print? I installed Lion and and come to find out, I can no longer open any Word documents or Excel spreadsheets as they are no longer supported (being PowerPC apps). Seriously?!?!?!?!! What are my alternatives?

Did I miss something in the fine print? I installed Lion and and come to find out, I can no longer open any Word documents or Excel spreadsheets as they are no longer supported (apparently because they are PowerPC apps). Seriously?!?!?!?!! What are my alternatives?

Hi Mary and Matthew
You might find it helpful to "try before you buy" - there is a 30 day free trial offer for Office for Mac 2011, accessible from M's .com website.
You may be able to use this period to open and resave your old documents in a format that enables you to switch instead to using Apple's iWorks apps moving forward.
I initially intended to do something similar, but ended up buying Office as it provided an easier way (for me, at least) to continue working with years worth of old emails, letters, spreadsheets and other documents (from my PC days) without risking damage to their integrity, formatting, etc.

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Hi everyone,
I'm at my wits end with this one having spent over 20 hours on it.
I have a Macbook Air running Lion 10.7.5 and a Macbook running OSX 10.6.8. I have a Photosmart 8050 printer attached to a Buffalo Linkstation Live LS-CH1 running firmware 1.60 (the latest version for this model). The Linkstation has a printserver which is attached via USB to the printer, the Linkstation is attached to a wireless router, for amound other things, wireless printing.
The long and the short of my problem is, I can get the Macbook running 10.6.8 to print without a problem, works fantastic, but I can not get the Air running 10.7.5 to print through the print server even though the printers are installed the very same way on both machines. The error from the print que is "unable to connect to printer" even though it seems to connect successfully to the Linkstation, as in my setup a username and password must be entered to access the printer, even though a user is logged in to the file server. Not to get confused, I am 99% convinced the problem is with the Macbook Air running 10.7.5.
I installed the printers using the Windows method, Workgroup -> Linkstation -> Printer then selecting the HP 8000 series driver version 5.0.4. I have also tried every other install method available, however as I understand it, this is the recommended method for this print server setup.
I have checked the network setup, driver versions and even though it does not seem to cover my printer have GutenPrint 5.2.9 installed.
The printer does work when connected directly to USB however.
If anyone has any idea why I cant get the Macbook Air running 10.7.5 to print via the print server on the Linkstation when 10.6.8 works perfectly, then please HELP!
Thank you

Power Cycle
Power off the router. Unplug it from the wall. Wait for few minutes.
Connect the router back to to the wall.
Power the router back on. Wait until all lights are lit properly. It will take a while.
Restart the computer.
Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

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Bonjour,
Je dispose d'un Imac 27`` début 2011 avec Snow Leopard installé et d'un Macbook pro de fin 2008. Sur ce dernier, j'ai installé Lion. A l'agence je dispose d'un photocopieur professionel Xerox Workcentre pro 2636 interfacé avec l'ordinateur me permettant ainsi d'imprimer et de scanner.
Jusqu'à hier, j'utilisais avec succès le protocole FTP pour récupérer mes scan directement sur l'Imac. Comme j'ai lu que le nouveau Mac osx Lion ne disposait plus de FTP, j'ai configuré l'Imac avec le partage de fichier SMB. J'ai du reconfigurer l'imprimante Xerox pour qu'elle utilise le protocole windows et SMB. Cela fonctionne parfaitement.
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Hello Eric,
Merci pour la réponse, je n'avais penser à cette possibilité.
J'ai régler le problème en installant un logiciel tiers appelé Pure ftpd Manager et cela fonctionne maintenant très bien.
En fait la fonction FTP est toujours existante sour OSX lion mais l'interface n'est pas accessible via les préférences système. Il faut l'activer et programmer via des commandes "terminal" Pure FTPF évite cette fastidieuse programmation.
Bien à vous
JC

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