Sharring a printer attached to a XP box?

[V.8MR]

I am trying to share a Cannon Pixma iP1800 attached to an XP machine. It is being shared, Other PC's in my network can use it as well as my XP virtual machine in virtualbox

Got samba installed and working. So i can see my windows workgroup and attached machines shared .dir's.

I am trying to use the System--> Printer Configuration --> New printer --> New Network Printer

I use the "other" option and the url is smb://work/crs2/canoniP1 (cannoniP1 is the share name of the printer in XP)

I installed the driver "cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-2_i386.deb" and it appears when i go to choose a driver using the New Network Printer.

When i try to hit ok at the end of the dialogue it says "There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-not-possible'"

Here is the cat of ....
root@CRS100:~# cd /var/log/cups
root@CRS100:/var/log/cups# cat error_log
E [09/May/2009:09:36:56 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:09:48:00 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:10:28:34 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:11:11:24 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:11:15:13 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:12:49:22 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:33:48 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:36:02 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:36:02 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:42:52 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:42:53 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
E [09/May/2009:13:42:53 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
E [09/May/2009:13:59:04 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
root@CRS100:/var/log/cups#


Please help me. I've been at this for days. Searched and searched and my head is about to assplode. THANX in advance for any and all help.

[D-cat]

Suggested is to install "Unix Print Services" on the XP print server, then redirect the installed "PDF Print" driver to output to your Pixma. You should then be able to set up your Linux machines as CUPS clients and they'll find the Windows printer (I remember reading about it sharing as an lpr print device or some other). Since the *nix way is with postscript, always, no drivers are necessary on the clients.

If you insist on using Samba client to make the connection (Windows way, req. driver you installed), that's okay too. I don't know off the top of my head how to fix the permissions error (Unauthorized) though, probably a security setting on the server, but I'm not stuck to it (it's 1:30 AM here). Hopefully someone here can pick up my very obvious slack at this hour.