Adding a Linux printer to Windows XP

[Phil Meyer]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> I have even configured my Linux userid/password but the error message I
>> get back from Windows is permission denied.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>>   
>
> Saw this one just the other day.  Samba did not automatically create 
> the spool directory.  Then when I created it manually it still 
> wouldn't write to it, so I made it 777 and it started to work.  Weird.
>
> First off, the default spool directory is: /usr/spool/samba
> That is wrong, of course, but there it is.
> Second, no indication who should own it.
>
> I found the error in /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 30 08:33:08 eragon smbd[27923]:   '/usr/spool/samba' does not 
> exist or permission denied when connecting to [lp] Error was No such 
> file or directory
>
> Good Luck!
>
Forgot to add:

# ln -s /var/spool /usr/spool

will correct the problem.  But the package maintainer probably needs to 
correct it in the next update.