if no, please turn it on.
open firefox type http://localhost:631
If you are connected to a Windows print server (or any other Samba capable print server), you can skip the section about kernel modules and such. All you have to do is start the CUPS daemon and complete the web interface as specified in section 3.3 and 3.4. Before this, you need to activate the Samba CUPS backend. You can do this by entering the following command:
# ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
Note that the symbol before is ` (underneath the ~ on a standard US keyboard) and not '. After this, you will have to restart CUPS using the command specified in the previous section. Next, simply log in on the CUPS web interface and choose to add a new printer. As a device choose "Windows Printer via SAMBA".
For the device location, enter:
smb://username:password@hostname/printer_name
Or without a password:
smb://username@hostname/printer_name
Make sure that the user actually has access to the printer on the Windows computer. Select the appropriate drivers and that's about it. If the computer is located on a domain, make sure the username includes the domain:
smb://username:password@domain/hostname/printer_name
Note: If your network contains many printers, use lpoptions -d your_desired_default_printer_name to set your preferred printer
Note: I, thepizzaking, was having 'NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED' errors and to fix them I needed to use a slightly different syntax:
smb://workgroup/username:password@hostname/printer_namereference: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Windows_to_Linux
