No that's not it. I run through the registry and remove anything that has a samsung name in it. And rebooted too to make sure. It didn't change anything. We tried connecting using hostname, IP address, etc. Nothing worked.rcrsn51 wrote:I suspect that mikeb is correct about the SP1 box. Buried somewhere in its registry is information about the Samsung printer that ties it to the old IP, which it keeps wanting to use.
By using a different name for the Samsung printer, you were able to bypass this problem.
The machine that has SP1 also has Samsung driver installed there although it doesn't work. My thinking is, when WinXP tried to add the printer, it sent a query about the printer and found out that it was a Samsung, and thus attempted to pair it with the Samsung driver (which doesn't work). And then instead of saying bad driver or something, it produced a very helpful message of "cannot connect to printer".
The trick that p310don worked because when he first created BrotherSam share, it was a Brother printer (whose driver isn't installed in the machine), so Windows didn't attempt to pair it to an existing driver and displayed a "choose driver" dialog instead (and choose HP Color Laserjet PS). Which worked for the Brother printer.
Then from CUPS we "modify printer" and changed that share name to point to the Samsung printer (but keep the share name of "BrotherSam").
From Windows point of view, nothing changed; as far as it is concerned it thinks that it is still printing to the Brother printer using that HP Color Laserjet PS driver.
But of course now CUPS actually prints to Samsung. Which works.