Windows Printer Sharing
Calvin Park
linuxsys at davisny.edu
Wed Oct 20 14:01:21 UTC 2004
*points at himself* Yeah...so...1ubuntu5 ISN'T the latest update...the
latest is 1ubuntu6 which *ahem* when downloaded allows the printer to
work pretty well. So then...I'll just thank the community for bearing
with me and go hide in a hole now.
-Calvin
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:11 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:24:06PM -0400, Calvin Park wrote:
>
> > I had sent a message last week about not being able to use printer
> > sharing on Ubuntu. Here's the setup...I'm running Ubuntu on a IBM
> > Intellistation 1.8Ghz with 256mb RAM. I've updated to the latest Samba
> > and all that. I setup a printer that was shared on another Windows
> > machine here in the office. After going through the setup I right
> > clicked on the printer and selected properties. Under status it says,
> > "Ready: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60
> > seconds...foomatic-rip version $Revision: 3.43.2.5 $ running..."
> >
> > Any ideas on this...?
>
> Sounds very much like https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2389
>
> which was fixed. Have you upgraded recently?
>
> --
> - mdz
>
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