Printing from Mac to WIndows

Printing from Mac to Windows

Using Apple's Printer Setup Utility, I was able to see the Windows
computer that was sharing the printer, but I couldn't see the printer on
the Windows computer.

The terrific article:

Printer Sharing - The Missing Link
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2429>

told me that if I looked at this URL in my Macintosh web browser, I'd
get to another interface to the printing system:

<http://localhost:631>

Then, all I had to do was:

Then, click on "Do Administrative Tasks",
Click on "Add Printer"
Choose "Windows Printer via SMB".
and type in its URL. I knew the web address of of the Windows box I
wanted to print on, and I used its "Printers" control panel to get the
name of the queue of the specific printer I wanted to use. In this
example, I'll call the windows box Winny and the Printer Franklin.

I typed in:

smb://Winny/Franklin

and filled out the rest of the details to create a printer. Now I had a
printer, and could print from any Macintosh application, or so I
thought. However, the printer queue program said: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
no matter what I tried to print.

Turns out, the URL I typed in, was only part of the story. It was trying
to print by logging in as Guest, and the Windows computer had Guest
login disabled. Turns out I should have used a URL of the form:

smb://username:password@workGroup/host/printerQueueName

So, for username Smith, password Pocahontas, on workgroup WORKGROUP I
should have typed:

smb://Smith:Pocahontas@WORKGROUP/Winny/Franklin

Next was to pick the right device driver for my printer. I've got a
Epson Stylus Photo R200, and the first two drivers I tried misprinted
horribly. In the menu of drivers, choosing: EPSON, then from the
submenu: "Epson Stylus Photo,CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5" seems to work OK.

I'm writing this note for so it will be indexed on
<http://groups.google.com>, so if you need to connect a Macintosh to a
Windows printer, and Printer Setup Utility isn't letting you see the
remote printer queue, you'll know what to do.

David Phillip Oster

Previously, in this thread, I wrote about connecting an Epson Stylus
Photo R200 to a Windows 2000 machine, then accessing it on a Macintosh
using the html interface to CUPS, <http://localhost:631>.

Here is the snag: I couldn't print on a CD.

Direct connection works: When I directly connected via USB, used the
"Epson USB" setup method in Printer Setup Utility, and at print time,
selected A4 paper as the page size, and CD/DVD as the media type, the
printer printed on the CD just fine.

But, network printing to a Windows box using the "Epson Stylus
Photo,CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5" device driver did not give me an option I
could find to say that I wanted to print on CD, and when I tried, the
printer just flashed its left and middle warning lights, which the
manual says means that the printer thinks I unintentionally left the CD
adapter in, when I was trying to print on ordinary paper.

Does anyone have a workaround so that I can print on CDs over the
network?

--
David Phillip Oster