FC4 Printer Sharing
Anthony Messina
amessina at messinet.com
Sun Feb 12 18:47:36 UTC 2006
L. Paul Andralouis wrote:
> You might want to try sharing it as a CUPS printer.
> Try searching the internet for "share CUPS printer
> with Windows" or something similar.
>
> --Paul
> --- Oliver Sampson <olsam at quickaudio.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Howdy,
>>I'm having trouble getting my printer to share to my
>>other Windows
>>computers on my network via Samba. The funny thing
>>is that I had this
>>set up a coupla years ago on FC2, and it was a piece
>>of cake. Now,
>>there's nothing but problems.
>>
>>I turned on Samba and browsing for printers in
>>Samba. My Windows
>>machines can now see my Linux machine via the
>>Network Neighborhood, but
>>not the printer.
>>
>>I turned on printer sharing in the
>>system-config-printer utility, but
>>that doesn't seem to make a difference.
>>
>>Here's the printer part of my smb.conf
>>[printers]
>> comment = All Printers
>> path = /var/spool/samba
>> browseable = yes
>># Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to
>>print
>> guest ok = yes
>>; writeable = no
>> printable = yes
>> public = yes
>>
>>Any tips?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
what does your cupsd.conf look like? what about the permissions in
cupsd.conf with regard to the individual printers? what does your samba
log say. what does your cups log say?
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