FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98
Aly Dharshi
aly.dharshi at telus.net
Tue Sep 7 02:10:15 UTC 2004
I assume that you are trying to share this printer via Samba ? If so
please let us see your smb.conf
Aly.
M.Hockings wrote:
> Edward wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> M.Hockings wrote:
>>
>>> Please accept my apologies if this hits the list twice. I've tried
>>> to send it to the list via gmane but that route does not appear to
>>> be functioning any longer. My inquiry follows:
>>>
>>> I am trying to share a printer attached to an FC1 box on our network.
>>> The network has a mix of FC1, Win98, Win2K and WinXP boxes. The
>>> printer is configured and working just fine on the FC1 box that it is
>>> attached to just fine. And I have been able to configure the Win98
>>> boxes to use it successfully as well. However any attempt to get it
>>> to work with other FC1 boxes, Win2K or XP fail. Browsing for the
>>> printer (SMB I guess?) and configuring it works just fine but
>>> printing fails miserably. I did try turning off the firewall on the
>>> machine with the printer but that does not seem to help. If it
>>> matters, the printer is an old HP DeskJet 870cxi.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts about how to make printer sharing on FC1 work with
>>> operating systems more advanced than Win98 ?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Mike. I remember doing this way back and running into the exact
>> same problems. It has something to do with permissions. Do you get
>> 'Connect error - access denied', when you look at the printers folder
>> in W2K/XP?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ed.
>
>
> Yup, Win2K reports "Access denied, unable to connect". FCx doesn't
> appear to report anything, just nothing gets printed.
>
> Mike
>
>
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