[plug] Suse network printer issue...

[Cameron Patrick]

Fred Janon wrote:

> I just installed Novell Suse and I am trying to access a printer 
> connected to a Windows machine and networked. I know the printer is on
> the network because I can print from other Winds machines on the
> network. Suse shows an error message: "Paused: Unable to connect to
> CIFS host after (tried 3 times)". I checked the printer settings and
> they seem right to me: Windows Printer (SMB) and the host name and
> printer name. How can I make sure that the Host and printer name are
> correct? Is there a tool in Suse that I can use to check what's on the
> network?

There's a couple of options:

 - the GNOME and KDE file managers will browse SMB networks.  If there
   isn't an option shouting out "network browsing" (or that option
   doesn't work), you can try punching in "smb:/" as a URL.  This will
   give you machine names, but probably not printer share names.

 - on the command line
        smbclient -L <machine name>
   will list shares on that machine including printers.  You can then
   connect with something like
        smbclient //machine/share
   (and IIRC this works with printers too - once you're connected you
   can even submit print jobs if you've got something in the appropriate
   format, which you probably don't)

Cameron