print to a samba printer through usb

[darkreaper00]

hoping this is the right spot to post this; I've mostly lingered with questions in the Perl forum.

I have a windows XP 2002 SP1 machine with an HP DeskJet 1220c shared over our Windows network. I have a machine running RedHat 9 that I want to connect via samba to print to this printer, but I cannot get to it. When I run printer configuration to add a print queue, I can see this computer, and I can see a networked LaserJet (Jetdirect) that *it* can print to, but not the DeskJet. The share settings are the same, and the deskjet is visible and commuicable to other windows boxes on our network. Any thoughts?

 

[MorpheusNL]

Is the XP machine in a domain ?
Can you see the other shares on the XP machine (from the RH Box)?

 

[darkreaper00]

Yes, it's in a domain (well, it's in a workgroup; I think we understand these to be the same?), and the LaserJet appears as a share under the XP machine (and I can set it up as a queue through it).

 

[MorpheusNL]

Well workgroup and domain are a little bit diffrent,
Have you tried typing the complete address with the add printer utility (as in \\XPBOX\DJ1220C )

Dunno for sure, but i recall Samba not liking spaces in printer. (maybe with an old version)

 

[darkreaper00]

(ok, so it wasn't on a domain)

anyhow, i got it working. apparently my linux box got terribly confused by an underscore in the share name, but my windows computers didn't.

thanks for your help!