Samba problems - printing - FYI

[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!
>
Aaron, I've discovered why it was working.  I am not using network cups at 
all, by the look of it, but samba printing.  This workstation was the last of 
the three installs I did, and I had a samba problem.  I could not browse the 
network, and I could not see the printers attached to the samba server.  Once 
I found the error and corrected it network browsing worked and all the 
printers are visible to system-config-printer.  Printing works perfectly.

This does rather beg the question as to whether I have ever used cups for 
remote printing, but that's not, I think, an issue that needs to worry me.

Anne