Anlace
November 8th, 2008, 08:57 PM
Greetings,
I am having significant challenges setting up a networked printing in Kubuntu 8.10.
Here is the setup:
Dual-boot desktop computer with Epson R220 and HP Photosmart C4470 printers attached and working via USB. Both printers work great in XP Pro and in Kubuntu 8.04 64 bit.
A second desktop computer and a Toshiba laptop running XP Home can print to both printers when the other desktop computer is booted into either Kubuntu 8.04 or XP Pro.
A HP Laptop (Inspiron 9400 series) that dual-boots Vista Business and Kubuntu 8.10. Vista can print to both printers when the other computer is running either Kubuntu 8.04 or XP Pro.
The problem is I have not been able setup printing with Kubuntu 8.10. It simply does not "see" the printers at all, neither one of them. I have tried everything I could find including manual setup using the CUPS interface using both IPP:// and SOCKET:// addresses in as many configurations as was suggested.
The printer utility provided by KDE 4.1 wasn't able to discover the printers either (obviously).
So what is it about Kubuntu/KDE 8.1 that is preventing me from finding networked printers? I can access all of the shared folders on the other computers via Samba. I feel like it's probably something obvious and I am just not seeing it.
As always any help with this is very much appreciated!
Peace,
Gail
I am having significant challenges setting up a networked printing in Kubuntu 8.10.
Here is the setup:
Dual-boot desktop computer with Epson R220 and HP Photosmart C4470 printers attached and working via USB. Both printers work great in XP Pro and in Kubuntu 8.04 64 bit.
A second desktop computer and a Toshiba laptop running XP Home can print to both printers when the other desktop computer is booted into either Kubuntu 8.04 or XP Pro.
A HP Laptop (Inspiron 9400 series) that dual-boots Vista Business and Kubuntu 8.10. Vista can print to both printers when the other computer is running either Kubuntu 8.04 or XP Pro.
The problem is I have not been able setup printing with Kubuntu 8.10. It simply does not "see" the printers at all, neither one of them. I have tried everything I could find including manual setup using the CUPS interface using both IPP:// and SOCKET:// addresses in as many configurations as was suggested.
The printer utility provided by KDE 4.1 wasn't able to discover the printers either (obviously).
So what is it about Kubuntu/KDE 8.1 that is preventing me from finding networked printers? I can access all of the shared folders on the other computers via Samba. I feel like it's probably something obvious and I am just not seeing it.
As always any help with this is very much appreciated!
Peace,
Gail