Windows Printing in Fedora 18

[trotter1985]

I can't seem to get Windows printing to work in Fedora 18.
I've enabled the smb and nmb services and they are running.
Also, I've allowed both samba and samba-client in the firewall.
But the "add printer" dialog box continues to say that it can't find
a printer. I tried entering "smb://machine/printer" of course with
the correct machine and printer entries. No luck.

Help appreciated.

trotter1985

[DBelton]

You do have the printer set up in Windows as shared?

Also, have you set the workgroup name? If not, you need to specify the workgroup name in the smb:// line

smb://workgroup/machine:port/printer

Also make sure you have the authentication details correct. You would use the windows user/password

And also, you need to be certain your firewall isn't blocking it

[trotter1985]

Of course I have the Windows 8 box set up to share the
printer ... and have had no problem accessing it with
RHEL 6.3 or Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10. In fact, I can
access the hard drive on the Windows box and can copy files from
the Windows box to my Fedora 18 installation. So the Samba
capability is alive and well.

I just can't see the printer.

Something is going on that's very strange.

trotter1985

[xambroz]

Hello,
I was not able to configure the windows printer from the Gnome settings (going from User menu / System Settings / Printers ).

The smbclient for "\\server\printer" works fine and I am even able to print file from the commandline.

Solution for me was to use system-config-printer .
"Add Printer" -> "Enter-UI" or "Windows Printer via SAMBA" -> give the url and here you go.

Best regards
Michal Ambroz

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Related bug report from F17 still valid in F18.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805289