samba share/printer problem
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Aug 30 14:06:15 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:42, Lorn Miller wrote:
> > Still sounds like you don't have the right user permissions setup yet.
> > If it is coming in as nobody then it sounds to me as if you are trying
> > to access it with guest type permissions. Make sure you have created a
> > user on the samba server that matches the user on the windows box
> > including the same password.
> The user on the Windows box is not using a password for their login. I
> would be inclined to make the printer public, but for the fact that the
> linux box will be in the router's dmz. I'll restrict that to
> username/password. I'm fairly certain that the XP box can provide a
> seperate username and password without much trouble.
>
> My best guess as to why the printer isn't working now is that the
> /var/spool directory is incorrect. That's the reason for the noob
> question about finding queue locations...
Everyone has areas that are new to them. No one knows everything.
Although Alexander Dalloz comes close. :)
> >
> > Of course you should be able to get most of that information from the
> > cups interface.
> Where would the cups interface be?
You should be able to access the cups interface using your browser with
http://localhost:631
You should be prompted for root's name and password.
> > > Thanks again for the help
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Scot L. Harris
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