[PabloTX]

I've got a HP 1200 series laserjet connected to a Windows 2000 box via USB, and on a local workgroup.

I've tried this, but the SMB option is never available to me. Any other suggestions?


http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...21017064855619

On OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), you can access a printer that has been shared on a Windows computer. Just follow these steps:

1. Launch Print Center
2. Hold down the Option key while clicking the Add button (in the Printer List window)
3. Select Advanced from the first pop-up menu.
4. Pick "Windows Printer via SAMBA" in the "Device" pop-up menu.
5. Enter whatever you want in "Device Name"
6. Enter the URI in "Device URI". The syntax is: smb://Server Name/Share Name
7. Pick the printer vendor from the Printer Model pop-up menu, and the subsequent model.

10.2.6 on a 17" Powerbook

[PabloTX]

Here are the options I get:



As you can see, no "Windows Printer via SAMBA"

[ghporter]

That's probably because Windows 2000 doesn't know how to share a USB printer the way it can share a parallel printer.

As I recall, the 1200 is USB only, right? Bummer.

My instinct here would be to put the printer on a Mac and share it from there, because OS X does know how to share a USB printer with Windows computers.

[Freeflyer]

In this situation, does the driver come from the mac or the pc.

I have an HP720 connected via parallel to a windows machine running win98. There are no mac drivers for this machine because it uses windows to drive the printer.

Can I use this method to print to it or do i need a different approach.

Cheers,

J.

[PabloTX]

Originally posted by GHPorter:


My instinct here would be to put the printer on a Mac and share it from there, because OS X does know how to share a USB printer with Windows computers.

Well, the problem is that the Mac is a 17" Powerbook which doesn't stay on/plugged in at all times. I want to be able to print from the backyard, couch, kitchen, etc.


I was able to get the "Windows Printer via SAMBA" option (perhaps after I installed Gimp Print), but am unable to connect to the actual printer. Not sure if the path is incorrect

I've tried:

smb://workgroupname/Win2Kboxname/printersharename

and

smb://Win2Kboxname/printersharename

HP makes a wireless Jetdirect, and I might look at that, but at ~$200, not too cheap.

Up to this point, I've just been saving anything I need to print to .pdf, then e-mailing or transferring the file via network to the windows box and printing from there, but I'd like to be able to print directly.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[cheerios]

check out this hint to show you how to enable the option the origional hint referred to (found this one earlier today myself)

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...20824202229751

Jaguar includes "CUPS" as printing system. This enables automatic printer browsing for remote machines, printer sharing etc. If you've got a Linux machine with CUPS running besides your Mac, you are able to print to all anchient printers, where the manufacturer doesn't provide an OSX driver to. (LinuxPrinting.org)

Hint: cupsomatic seems to fail for me when getting a PDF job from my mac. Changing debug to "1" (my debug="1") in cupsomatic helps.

To enable printing from Jaguar via Samba to Windows machines, you've got to include "smbspool" as cups backend. Grab Terminal as root and enter:
% cd /usr/libexec/cups/backend
% ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool smb
Now reboot (or restart cups by "kill -HUP"). Print Center cowardly refuses to add SMB printers. So grab your favorite browser and enter "http://127.0.0.1:631" as URL. Go to printers, add a printer, and use "Windows Printer via SAMBA" as Device. The printer URL may be one of the following, depending on your environment (see cups documentation):
smb://userass@workgroup/server/sharename
smb://server/sharename
Unfortunately, the number of printer drivers included with cups is quite low and the usual MacOS X vendor drivers are not updated yet. If you don't find your model listed, consider gimp-print. You need the Developer Tools to compile and install gimp-print.

[darren h]

This article might be useful?

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ght=stylus+c80

Hope it helps