FC4 Printer Sharing

[Anthony Messina]

Oliver Sampson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 12:47 -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> 
>>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? 
> 
> 
> <Location /printers/Epson>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> AuthType None
> Allow from All
> 
> Interestingly there's no </location> at the end of the file. (that part
> was automatically generated by system-config-printer.  So, does that
> entry even makes sense?
> 
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> 
> The error log says:
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Sending browsing info to ffffffff:631
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Listening to 0:631
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Loaded configuration file
> "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per
> host.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Full reload is required.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 15
> PPDs...
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] Full reload complete.
> 
> Thanks,
is it possible that there is an ipv4 vs ipv6 conflict here?

also, i f you try to print through samba to cups from a windows machine, 
what does the error log show in both samba and cups?

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