Lion broke printing to Windows Print Server (smb)

Have you tried LPD yet? Are you able to access the shares on the device? If so, are you using this as a Time Machine or just normal storage? There are a few hits about this on Apple's forum as well as Buffalo's. The gist that I get is that Buffalo's still working on a solution for this:

http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/Mac-OS-10-7-Lion-can-t-connect-with-Lin kStation-LS-WX2-0TL-R1/td-p/57114/page/8

http://forums.techarena.in/hardware-peripherals/1442554.htm

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3213081?start=0&tstart=0

Is there any sort of event log on the NAS? If so, you might poke around in there to see if the Lion machine is even actually making the connection at all and if so, what the event log points to as a possible failure.

Thanks for this reply Dane,

Yes, I have tried LDP as ldp://ipaddress/share I get no authentication dialog and the printer window says "Copying print data" forever.

Yes all the shares are accessible by both of my Lion machines. No I'm not using it as a time machine backup.

I poked around on my Buffalo LS CHL for some logs, but they are not user accessible if they even exist. It's possible the issue lies there, but since it still works perfectly in Snow leopard I think Apple is the culprit here.

It's my own fault I usually wait until 10.x.5 or later to switch to a new OS version. So others can hammer out all these bugs and get all the little things working exactly like they did with the old versions.

If you think of something else to try I'm willing.

Thanks

An Update:

I decided to try the new Gutenprint (5.2.8 pre1) driver for my Canon inkjet and that works but only via LDP not SMB, while the newest driver from Canon did not. My Canon laser still doesn't work attached to the Buffalo, it is temporarily relocated to my Airport express and works via bonjour, but I really want it located next to my NAS which is in another room.

I install Gutenprint driver and just add my printer (canon mp160) in lion which is shared on my computer with windows via SMB. And now its working!

PS: sorry for my english

I managed to get my Buffalo Livestation NAS printing from my MBP (it stopped working after lion upgrade) - by deleting all the existing printers, then in advanced options adding ldp://ipaddressoflivestation (with no /share suffix)

hope that helps

One point: CTL+Click is for you one-button folk. For the rest of us, it's RIGHT CLICK

This is the answer, though!

Here's my specific variaton to help out:

Case: Migrating from 2008 Black MacBook running Lion to new Mac Mini 2011.

On the MacBook, in the System Information application, under Printers, I see this:

smb://<ip address of DNS-323 NAS/Print Server>/lp

...and it's running the CUPS drivers, which are not included with Lion

Solution: Using PeterV's answer, and...

Right Click/CTL+Click/Two Finger Tap the toolbar on the Add Printer dialogue, no mather how you get to it. This is giving you the Customize Toolbar pop-up. Add Advanced to the Toolbar, and use that.

Follow the directions PeterV gives, but with this for the DNS-323 (probably for Windows XP too. i.e. SMB 1):

smb://<ip address of DNS-323 NAS/Print Server>:139/lp

And, just so we don't feel abandoned, here's the Apple link to all the CUPS Brother drivers:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894

After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion I could no longer print to a printer shared from a Windows XP Pro computer. I followed other's advice and tried installing using the CUPS interface, with and without login/password. That didn't work. I tried LPD, that didn't work.

What worked for me:

Disable Simple File Sharing on Windows XP Pro - This is found in the file explorer Tools menu->Folder Options->View. Uncheck "Use Simple File Sharing."

Assign a Static IP address to the Windows PC.

Add SMB Printer using CUPS interface with login and password - HTTP://localhost:631, using smb://[login]:[password]@[x.x.x.x]/printername

It probably doesn't make a difference but I used the gutenprint driver.

Note: This was XP Pro. I am not sure if these instructions apply to a XP/Vista/W7 Home Premium installation.

this is all well and good. and these solutions work fine, but we have a password policy that requires passwords to be changed every 90 days. is there anyway, short of deleting the keychain at every password change, that the users will not have to go into the print queue, hit resume, and enter the new password?

we are on a windows 2008 print server. clients are mostly running Lion with a small handfull of mountain lion

thanks

The easiest thing to do is to teach your users to modify their keychain entries for the printer. Any Mac user should learn how to do that anyway (in my opinion). We have taken steps here to teach users to modify their Credential Manager in Windows when necessary.

You don't need to edit anything in Keychain access. You'll be prompted for a password if it fails and can reselect "remember this in my keychain." This should update the Keychain entry for the printer.

In my experience with this issue, the re-prompt does not occur. The job just fails without explanation or briefly states a message about nt_failure.