Windows Printing via Samba

In Mac OS 10.4 there was a feature in the Printer Setup Utility where the option key could be held down while "more printers" was being clicked and an advanced option would be added to the pull down menu for the printing method. This advanced tab allowed one to setup Windows Printing Via Samba. When one holds down the option key while clicking more printers in the printer setup system preference in OS 10.5, there is no longer an advanced option that appears in the pull down menu. Is there way to setup this same feature in OS 10.5?

I was having this issue too. This is a Windows/Apple compatibility thing I think, My company uses Active Directory but won't support my Mac Laptop On it. (They are living in the past).
Anyway, because Active Directory isn't set up you must enter your passwords while setting up the printer and check the box that says save to the Keychains.
SO, to add it on the NT network. Open Printer/Fax in System prefs. Then click the + Button. On top choose Windows Printer and you'll get the entire network. As you follow the network at each server you are going to if it requires a user name and password enter them and make sure you tell it to save in your key chains.When you finally reach your Network Printer it may or may not ask for a password there. My Company it only asks at the server levels.
Now for the unknown part. Depending on how your IT dept. has set things up you may have to enter your USER NAME in the Authorization Box as follows DOMAIN\USERNAME (NOTE the "\" backslash!). Also note that this format wasn't consistent across servers, again, at least at my Company. It all depends on how the servers are set up. To use the printer by my desk I have to go through 3 servers each two needed the domain\username and one did not. It's a guessing game unless you can use Active Directory.
At least in my company this worked and I'm able to print again. I did find if I entered my Authorization information wrong (type-os). I could NOT edit them in Keychain Access and have it work correctly I always has to go back to the whole add Windows and follow the correct path.
I'm sure someone more savvy than I might be able to chime in here and describe how to add a printer by just typing the URL and if you are that person please let us know it would be alot easier!
Hope this helps?!?
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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).
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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:
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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/
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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:
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The process "foomatic-rip" stopped unexpectedly with status 255.
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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.
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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
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Windows printer via SAMBA

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What errors are you getting when you try to connect to the printer?
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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
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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.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2231.html
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...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.
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I'm very happy.
Adam

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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.

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Get them to enable LPR (aka Unix Print Services) on the Windows print server and you can use LPD on the Mac instead of SMB to print from the Mac.
If they won't enable LPR then you may just need to remove the printer and any previous login keychain for the SMB connection and add the queue again.

Printing to windows printer via mac - am i being stupid?

I really don't get this. I've just bought my 1st mac, a macbook pro, to replace my old windows laptop. I also have a windows pc, with an Epson USB printer attached to it, as well as the windows desktop being connect via ethernet to a netgear wireless router/modem. When i have the windows laptop i could print wirelessly via the windows desktop without problems, with the mac! no chance. I can connect to the windows desktop wirelessly so long as i connect via the finder/go/connect to server option as it doesn't show under finder/shared sidebar, but can't access the printer. I installed bonjour for windows today but running the printer wizard on the desktop doesn't show any bonjour printers, yet the printer is connected directly to the desktop via usb. Am i misunderstanding what this is all about. I just want to print from my mac, wirelessly via the PC. And yes the printer is shared.
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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 to a Windows Printer from a MacBook Pro

Gidday Folks, my apologies if this has been dealt with but I wasn't able to find a solution that exactly fits my problem. Hope you can help.
I'm using a MacBook Pro in a Windows environment and although it is easy to hook into the network and locate the printer (a Kyocera FS8000-C), it's become a lottery as to whether I can actually print through it. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't.
It seems the print job will execute IF the 'Shared Printer' category is available in the Page Setup dialog box. If 'Shared Printer' isn't an available option, and I select the Kyocera option, the print job doesn't complete and I get the "... unable to connect via SAMBA etc ..." error message in the print job dialog box.
I remember when connecting my old PowerBook using Jaguar, I installed the gimp print ghosting software. Should I do that here? Tiger has removed the need for gimp print hasn't it? And in any case, the software wouldn't be compatible with the Intel chip would it?
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I think I've solved the problem. At least, I've got the MacBook printing to the PC networked printer for the moment.
First of all I installed Gimp-Print; now whether this had a part to play in the end I'm not sure because the G-P software, although Tiger savvy, appears to have been PPC-native. Would this make a difference in the Intel MacBook?
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smb://username:password@workgroup/servername/sharedprinter
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4.7 Select the printer driver. (I'd already installed the Kyocera driver)
4.8 Finally, ensure that Windows File Sharing is enabled in the System Preferences Sharing pane,
After a system re-start, the print jobs began rolling.
It was the URI that needed attention, it seems the password was what was tripping the system and once I got that right everything began to work.
Some of these directions might be obsolete in Tiger, e.g. I'm not sure 4.8 is essential and as I said above I'm not exactly sure if the Gimp-Print installation played a part, but I'm up and printing for th moment.
Thanks iFelix for your help.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OS X can't find windows printer

I am running a macbook (OX X 10.4.7) on a wired network with other windows xp computers. The network printer (Brother MFC9600 laser printer) is connected to one of the windows units. The macbook is able to connect fine to all other computers on the network and can also see one other printer (a Canon photo printer) that is connected to the same windows computer as the Brother, but it cannot find the Brother printer. I have tried running a Terminal routine (smbclient -NL), suggested in a previous post on a similar issue, which correctly identifies the Canon printer on this network, but not the Brother.
The only thing I can think of that distinguishes the Brother unit is that it is not driven by a Brother print driver but only by a generic Windows driver built into XP. (Brother has never provided an XP driver for this machine.) Is it possible that this is preventing me from installing, and naturally, printing from, the unit?
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Hi Terry,
The driver used on the XP pc has no influence on your ability to find the share. You are only using the path - not the driver. If you find that the printer share is not showing when you select Windows Printing, it may be a rights issue. You could try opening the Advanced option (hold down the option key when you click more printers in the printer browser) and selecting Windows Printing via SAMBA. Then manually enter the pc name (or ip address) followed by the printer share name. If the pc has xp sp2, then you may also have to enter an xp account name/password in the smb path, ex. smb://user:password@computername/printershare. Then browse the Brother printer list for the 9600 CUPS v1.1 'driver'.
Regards,
Paul

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I can no longer print from windows pc via mac/time machine in lion. Does anyone know why, I can no longer print from windows pc via mac/time machine in lion. Does anyone know why

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OK, here's my setup, and my problem:
1. Mac mini, Windows Vista PC, Windows XP PC all connected to an AEBSn via Ethernet.
2. Bonjour for Windows installed on both PCs.
3. Ministack w/built-in powered USB2.0 Hub & Internal HDD connected to AEBSn's USB port.
3. External HDD in USB 2.0 enclosure attached to Ministack via USB port.
4. Canon MP530 Printer connected to Ministack via USB port.
I can read and write to the Minstack's internal HDD and the other External HDD from any computer on the network, no problem. I can print to the printer from the Macintosh. But I CANNOT print from the Windows PC.
I can, allegedly, see the printer from the Windows machines and add it via Bonjour. I have also tried to add it via the method listed at iFelix's website (i.e. adding a printer by creating a new TCP/IP printer port). But nothing works.
Here is what happens: everything "appears" to work and the printer shows up on the Windows machines and in fact quite often once it is set up I can print a test page. However, once I try to use the machine later on, after the initial set-up it never works, this has happened now over about 15-20 cycles of installing, uninstalling, and re-installing the printer.
What I notice happens by looking at the Windows printer queue when i send a document to the printer in Windows is the following:
1. Sometimes the print dialog will simply say something like "Checking printer status" and just freeze there and nothing prints.
2. Sometimes it will add the document to the queue and then immediately delete it and nothing prints.
3. Quite often it will simply say something like "Printer is not responding" or "Printer is offline" and the print job just sits in the queue and nothing prints.
4. Sometimes, and I am not joking, the document will print out minutes later, inexplicably, once ten minutes later after the computer was turned off!
This is maddening and I would love a solution, even if that solution is ditch the Canon and buy "insert printer name" or "known working printer", because at this point I just need to print from the network with some consistency. I can print from any computer if the Canon is directly connected, but that is a horrible process of plugging and unplugging USB cables, and this is SUPPOSED to work.
Also, I would note that I am not adverse to using a switch with the printer, and would prefer an auto switch if anyone knows one that is know to work with PCs and Mac. I would prefer one that did not take an Ethernet port (like the new Belkin one) as I need all three of them for wired connections.
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Thanks, Arimaris!
Appreciate the response!
Your first link should be: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/8013.html
That is the link for the compatibility list for the NEWER AEBSn, the one you provided is for the older base station. I've seen this list before and the problem is that most of the printers are older there, and hard to find, and there is no certainty that if you do buy that older printer it will workk as the disclaimer on the article reads: "Please also note that due to changes in firmware and software upgrades some printers which are in this list may no longer in fact be compatible."
I would love to see an OFFICIAL lost from Apple about which printers are KNOWN to work with the AEBSn via USB, but I am thinking they might not do that so as not to anger their partners who cannot seem to make their printers function properly via Windows.
I've also tried the method mentioned in your second link, many times, and it does not work for me, either consistently or reliably. I've gotten the printer to work that way (creating a new printer port via TCP/IP w/ AEBS IP addy) maybe once or twice, usually right after I set it up, and then immediately after the test print, or after a restart, it stops working. I've also had it not work after set-up. I've also experienced the "It doesn't work, walk away, and then it prints 15 mins later" syndrome, with this approach. Also, it is a pain to later delete this new TCP/IP port and try again.
Something has got to give, someone has got to know the answer to this problem. I valiantly tried to get answers from the "experts" and "geniuses" at MacWorld this month, to no avail. Sorry you are experiencing the same, I feel your pain.

Printing directly on SAP-printer or via preview on windows printer

Hi all,
I'm having a serious print problem: The result of printing directly on a SAP printer or printing via preview on a windows printer is a wide difference!
In the beginning I was working only with the preview of the LiveCycle Designer to check the design of my forms. Later on I was checking them in preview mode in SAP-transactions or saved them onto my local disk. Printing was no problem because I printed the created forms on a window printer.
One day there was a big surprise when printing a form directly from SAP on a local SAP-printer (HP printer). The output looked a bit different. Somehow the form was like streched. The left and right margins were not on the sheet anymore. Even the lowest part of the footer was not visilble anymore. It looked like the layout was centerd and aligned on top of the page.
The SAP printer is installed with a PCL driver (standard for HP). Even adjustments relative to the SAP-hint 1444342
(device independent printing) were regarded.
My question now is: how to install SAP-printers that the print output is the same no matter what print method is chosen?
I appreciate any help, hints and good advices which leads to a solution of my problem.
Thanks & regards,
Phil
PS: I'm creating a Form with LiveCycle Designer 9.0.1 (SAP GUI 720, Patch-level 4).

Hi Prathamesh,
Follow this approach.
Get NAST entry corresponding to invoice number(invoice number = objky).
insert this piece of code :
     gwa_nast-vstat = 1.
     gwa_nast-erdat = sy-datum.
     gwa_nast-eruhr = sy-uzeit.
     gwa_nast-usnam = sy-uname.
     gwa_nast-manue = 'X'.
     gwa_nast-vstat = 0.
     gwa_nast-LDEST = P_printername_from_selection_screen.
     CLEAR gwa_nast-datvr.
     CLEAR gwa_nast-uhrvr.
     CLEAR gwa_nast-cmfpnr.
   MOVE gwa_nast TO nast.
   PERFORM einzelnachricht_dialog IN PROGRAM rsnast00 USING sy-subrc.
   IF sy-subrc NE 0.
     PERFORM objekt_entsperren IN PROGRAM rsnast00.
     IF sy-subrc EQ 9.
       RAISE print_error_dial.
     ELSE.
       RAISE print_error.
     ENDIF.
   ENDIF.
   SET SCREEN 0.
   PERFORM objekt_entsperren IN PROGRAM rsnast00.
   COMMIT WORK AND WAIT.
the above will generate a spool.
Thanks,
Anil

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