FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98

[Aly Dharshi]

If I am not wrong, I believe that the printers are shared out via Samba to be 
made available to the Windows clients.

c_r_ at fedora wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:06, M.Hockings wrote:
> 
>>Edward wrote:
>>
>>>M.Hockings wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes. Good fun isn't it. You'd think after all these samba releases since 
>>>97 or so, we'd finally be rid of this kind of crud.
>>>
>>>Look, I remember screwing with machine names, user names and passwords, 
>>>samba configuration settings, and CUPS setting (for raw printing). 
>>>Eventually it worked (although the access denied message never went 
>>>away). A few releases later and I haven't bothered trying any more.
>>>
>>>I did keep a link from then though - and it looks like it could help:
>>>
>>>http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2546603
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, and please be aware if your printer uses a print monitor, it will 
>>>not work through samba period.
>>>
>>>Sorry I don't have a definitive answer. I couldn't find one way back 
>>>then either.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Ed.
>>
>>Thanks Ed,
>>
>>I'll ponder though it and see what I can get to work.  I've tried using 
>>LPR from Win2K and CUPS from FC1 to print to the problematic printer 
>>queue but to no avail.  I really can't imagine that is should be this 
>>difficult.  So I figure I must be missing something along the way.
>>
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> I don't see where you need Samba. - perhaps I missed something?
> 
> But here is a similar issue, but on FC2(?)
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg03791.html
> which worked for me as well. The deal for me was to edit cups.conf. See
> section "Modify cups configuration" at
> http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
> 
> hth
> chris
> 

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