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Printing to a Windows network

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Anyone know how to make my G3-300 print to a shared printer on a Windows
network. Ok, the printer is actually on a machine running RedHat8, but you
procedure should be the same.

Thanx

Archer B. May

I have the same problem.

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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I would wonder about your HP4 driver... unlike in Windows, networking
printing is driver-related; for instance, I've got an HP PSC950
all-in-one... it prints fine using HP's driver when it's connected to my
Mac, but that driver won't let me print when it's connected to a PC.

HP says 'it's not designed to be a network printer'.

When I installed Gimp-print (and Ghostscript, available on the
Gimp-print site), I found that my model was listed as 'unsupported' but
reported to work using the Gimp-Print HP Deskjet 900 driver... and it
works fine-- because that driver (and all the Gimp-Print drivers) is
designed to allow network access.

So select Unknown Network Device (SMB) if you have to, pick Printer
Model: HP, and in the long drop-down list, scroll until you see HP
Laserjet 4 series, CUPS+GIMP-print v. 4.2.4

See if that works for you!

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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Yeah, I did that but it says Unknown Network Device (SMB), nothing about
Windows Printer. I'm beginning to think the problem is SAMBA related on my
Redhat box. I don't know if it is allowing access to the Mac. Then again
the Mac.log file on the print server shows no attempts from the Mac at all.
All the windows machines in the house can print, but the mac just starts,
then stops. It's hard to tell where the problem may be. Let me give you
the settings that I should've started all this out with.
I'm running a Beige G3 300 with 256 MB RAM running OSX 10.2.4
In the address box, I have smb://redhat/oki and the driver is set to HP4
(that's what the Okipage 14e emulates)
I am able to transfer files to and from the other machines, both Windows and
Linux, over the network.
Oh, and for fun, I went ahead and installed the lastest Gimp-Print. I don't
know if that is what made the Unknown Network Device (SMB) start showing up
or if I just missed it before installing.
And that's all I can think of to tell you.

I don't know what else to do.

Thanx again.

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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yeah, good luck with that ;)

I still can't print to my Windows printer. It will pull a page thru, and
that's it. Then the computer needs to be restarted again before the
printer works.

/tommy

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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I was perhaps not detailed enough about the steps in that article...
-- Open Print Center
-- Option+ Click ADD
-- drop down the Device list

Now you should see WINDOWS PRINTER VIA SAMBA

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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I followed your HTTP page, but after hitting add and advanced, Windows
printing via SAMBA was not an option. There was nothing between USB and
Zeroconf printers. Thanx for your help, by the way.

ArcherB

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posted on Aug 01, 2007

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OSX or earlier?

If OS 8.6-9.2, your best bet is to try out Dave (#
there's a free 30-day trial download); classic Mac OS has nothing
built-in for that.

With OS X 10.2, you can do it, but you need a printer-driver for your
printer that has network features built-in. Your best-bet (in that case)
is to check out Gimp-print #

See my article on Gimp-print on low-end-mac:

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