Samba problems - printing solved

[Bob Chiodini]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:10 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 12:06, Craig White wrote:
> > home share.
> >
> > Cups by default does not share printers - you have to tell it to do
> > that. All you really need to do to share a printer is to use
> > system-config-printer and indicate which printer you want to share. It
> > seems that you want to complicate things.
> >
> Sometimes the need to define the problem to post to list helps you get focus.  
> I had printer entries visible in system-config-printer that were not 
> shareable, or editable.  I opened up the cups config screen and deleted the 
> entries, then re-added them from system-config-printer.  They are now usable 
> on other boxes on the lan.
> 
> Now I need to solve the problem of 'homes'
> 
> Anne
> 

Anne,

Could this be something on the Windows side?  Between the single quotes
should be a directory.

Try ethereal to "sniff" the network.  I'm not up on windows, but could
the user be trying to connect with a null string in the "connect as
user" dialog?

Bob...