printing to windows xp shared printer fails

[Goffioul Michael]

> thanx for the quick response...
> 
> >this case, it is controlled by CUPS. For this, CUPS
> > uses the "smb"backend, which is a symlink to
> > "smbspool" distributed with samba.
> 
> yes - i had to make the symlink in order to have smb
> printing enabled in kde.
> 
> > DEVICE_URI=smb://GROUP/SERVER/printername smbspool
> > 0 myuser jobname 1 "" file.ps
> 
> this gave me (with the right host/printer)
> 
> failed tcon_X with NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> ERROR:  Connection failed with error
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in
> 60 seconds...

No sorry. But at least this locate the problem more precisely.
As CUPS relies on "smbspool", this should at least work.
Maybe you could look into smbspool manual pages.

Michael.