Samba Printing Woes

[Antonio Montagnani]

Richard Crawford wrote / ha scritto on /il 24/04/2005 16:43:

>I've just rebuilt my old RH8 file/print server up to FC3 (completely fresh 
>install, new hard drive and everything).  Mostly everything seems to be 
>working well so far.  It's sending out mail, Samba shares are seen properly 
>for file sharing, music files are serving up properly.
>
>Unfortunately, I can't get the printer -- my sturdy, reliable HP 712C -- to be 
>seen in Samba.  When I st up the printer locally on the server, it works just 
>fine, and prints test pages beautifully.  However, I'm having no luck at all 
>sharing out the printer via Samba.
>
>Here is the Samba information from the printer, generated by SWAT:
>
>[Fluffy]
>        path = /var/spool/samba
>        guest ok = Yes
>        printable = Yes
>        browseable = Yes
>
>This configuration worked perfectly under RH8, which was running Samba 2.  The 
>new server runs Samba 3, but I can't find anything on Google which would 
>indicate that anything needs to be changed.
>
>I'm at my wit's end, and I need to print up some documents.  What am I doing 
>wrong?
>
>  
>
This is my samba.conf file, and printer works on my network...I guess 
thet you didn't uncomment the raw printing lines in mime.convs and 
mime.types file in /etc/samba directory.

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2005/03/22 08:49:21

# Global parameters
[global]
    dns proxy = No
    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
    cups options = raw
    server string = PC Antonio
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
    workgroup = Workgroup
    guest ok = Yes
    os level = 255
    null passwords = Yes
    username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
    max log size = 50
    wins support = true

[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    writeable = yes

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printable = Yes
    browseable = No

-- 
 Antonio
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