HP printer accessible from WindowsXP when using FC5 ??
Tom Horsley
tomhorsley at adelphia.net
Thu Sep 7 22:05:06 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:33 -0400, William Case wrote:
> I tried Samba. That is what took up most of my day yesterday.
Yea, somehow things got harder to setup in FC5. When I
genned FC5 from scratch, I tried to setup samba
from scratch as well using swat (which had worked
previously fairly easily), but I could never get
any public shares or printers to show up on
my Windows XP box. Eventually I tried substituting
my old FC4 smb.conf file, and everything worked
perfectly. Here's what seems to function for me
to let my LaserJet 6L show up on the Windows
network:
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2006/09/04 10:16:43
[global]
workgroup = WORKGRP
server string = Samba Server
security = SHARE
null passwords = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = /etc/printcap
dns proxy = No
ldap ssl = no
cups options = raw
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[public]
comment = Public Share on Zooty
path = /zooty/public
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
[backupgrommit]
comment = Network backup for grommit
path = /backup/grommit
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
When I add printer on Windows XP, I tell it there is
a LaserJet 6L at the other end, so the "raw" cups
data will show up in the right format.
P.S. This is a local network behind a router with no open ports,
so don't all you crackers out there start salivating
at the prospect of a network to break into :-).
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