Samba problems - printing solved

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 22:05, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>
> Ok, I can't solve the homes problem but as I have said before
> system-config-printer is not really compatible with CUPS printing and
> sharing is one of the things it does not do properly, even it is
> working for you right now.
>
> What you did above is exactly backwards. You should have deleted all
> the printer definitions with system-config-printers, and did all the
> printer configuration through the CUPS interfaces and files.
> To share printers on a print server, define all the printers on the
> server. Then add a single line to the /etc/cups/client.conf on the
> clients. The line to be configured says: ServerName sol.cs.trinity.edu
> Where you fill in your print servers name. Easy no!
>
That's why I'm tearing my hair, Aaron.  That is exactly the way I did it, the 
first time around.  It's what I've always done before, and it has always 
worked, but it didn't this time round.

I don't even know whether the present method is working properly.  From the 
laptop I can see the printers and print to them.  This box still has some 
samba issues that I need to look at tomorrow, and it could be that the lack 
of printer connections from this box are also mis-configuration.  If the 
worst comes to the worst I'll delete the server-config-printer profiles and 
start all over again.


Anne