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I'm having trouble with my EPSON Stylus C62 printer.

Here is my netwrok setup:
[list]A) Windows XP (Home Edition)[/list:u]
[list]B) ArkLinux w/KDE[/list:u]
Networked through a router.

I started of having the printer connected to a Windows computer. I set the printer as shared, but when I try to use the Printer Manager to add a printer (SMB), I can click “scan” and the WinXP machine shows up, but I get the following message when I double click on the machine:
[code:1]Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED[/code:1]
However, I can network to shared files and folders on that machine without error. After doing a lot of research, I found a few forum posts that said the home edition of XP did not have all the networking support of the professional edition or Win2K, and that has lead to some difficulties with networked printers hosted from WinXP.

So, I figured I would put the printer in the Linux machine and connect to it from the WinXP machine. LinuxPrinting.org says this model work perfectly with Linux.

I started by using the "Printing Manager", and it had this model listed, so I figured I am home free. But it does not work. When I print a test page, or any other page, the printer does not do anything, and there are no error messages. Well, the printer worked fine on the WinXP machine, so I know the printer is not broken.

So I figured I would try to use the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/admin). But here when I try to configure the printer or add a new printer, the “EPSON Stylus C62” is not listed. If I try to pick something similar, I either get the same result, or the printer does something weird like printing all $ signs (but the fact that it can do that indicated to me that the machine can detect the printer).

I found that on some forums there were people that have specifically said that the gimp-print v4.* did not work for their EPSON Stylus C* printer, and that when they updated to the gimp-print v5 Beta, they were able to get it working. So I tried this too.

So I tried to install gimp-print v5 Beta. But it did not help, so I started a forum point on the ArkLinux site to try to get some help: http://www.arklinux.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41
They suggested that I not try installing the most recent gimp-print, so I uninstalled it, and reinstalled v4.

But my printer still did not work. But I needed to print some stuff, so I put the printer back on the WinXP machine.

I then noticed in Kynaptic that I had a slightly out of date version of SAMBA. So I upgraded it. Now when I try to use the Printer Manager to network to the WinXP printer from Linux again, when I click “scan” the WinXP machine no longer comes up at all. However, I can still access all the shared files and folders on both machines without error.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.[/list][/list]

OK, I went and I got the PPD file for my printer from gimp-print and put it into my CUPS directory (/usr/share/cups/model/ppd). Then after restarting CUPS service, my printer did show up under CUPS. So I tried adding it agan via CUPS web interface. It added the printer OK, but then wehn I viewed my printers through the CUPS web interface, that printer showed...
[code:1][b]EPSON[/b]
Epson Stylus C62 Foomatic/gimp-print (recommended)

Description:
Location:
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL"
Device URI: smb://OFFICENETWORK.thor/EPSON
[/code:1]

OFFICENETWORK is the name of my network, and THOR is the name of the WinXP machine with the printer.

So even CUPS gets the NT error message.

Should I move my printer back to the Linux box, and try it that way?

This could be important:
I was just able map to the printer from my laptop (Win2K).

(Sorry I didn't try this before; my laptop has a history of having network problems, so I didn’t think it would work or be helpful).

So, I now have three machines on my network
A) WinXP (printer local)
B) Win2K (Able to map printer)
C) Linux (Gets "Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL" error when mapping printer, but able to access files via SMB)

Sorry it took me so long to respond.

1. Physically install the printer to the linux machine
-- DONE
2. Install CUPS
-- DONE (v1:1.1.20)
3. Install foomatic (note dependancies)
-- DONE (foomatic-db 20040411, foomatic-db-engine v3.0.1, foomatic-db-hpijs 20040311, foomatic-filter v3.0.1)
4. Get PPD file from linuxprinting.org
-- DONE (I was having trouble finding the downlaodable version online, so I got the PPD file for my printer from gimp-print and put it into my CUPS directory: /usr/share/cups/model/ppd - Is that OK?)
5. Install Samba
-- DONE (v3.0.5)

From Command Prompt:
[code:1]$ touch test.txt
$ echo "Hello World" > test.txt
$ cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied[/code:1]

If I switch to root user, and run the same thing, the command prompt just hangs there, doing nothing, and does not reprompt me.
:cry: