Samba and printer question.

[JD]

I have shared cups printers through samba.
I had to add a user and password
via smbpasswd. After I had added the username
and created a password via smbpasswd, iI looked in
the file /etc/samba/smbusers to be sure the username
was there.
The client is supposed to provide the username
and password when connecting to the printer.
Also I checked /etc/samba/smb.conf for any
permission issues, such as:

 hosts allow = 192.168.1.3  10.  172.
 security = user
 passdb backend = tdbsam

Also, the printer share itself:


[hp deskjet 5600]
   printer = raw
   comment = HP DeskJet 5600
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = yes
   printer name = hpdj-5650w
# Set public = yes IF you want to allow user 'guest' to print
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes
   print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -Phpdj-5650w %s
   lpq command = lpq -Phpdj-5650w
   lprm command = lprm -Phpdj-5650w %j
   lpstat command = /usr/bin/lpstat -t
#Required for XP?
;   use client driver = yes

All worked as expected.

Cheers,

JD


Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a HP4050 printer which is connected trought hp-jetdirect. It 
> works fine with cups, but I couldn't  get it shared trough samba. It 
> shows okay to my vista laptop, but it laptop couldn't connect to it. I 
> can use cups so it's not a problem, but I would be interested to find 
> out why it didn't work trough samba as I could end up seeing something 
> similiar when at customer or somewhere else where using cups isn't an 
> option.
>
> Fedora version is 10. Samba and cups are latest available versions. 
> Also I didn't really get any helpful errors in selinux or samba logs 
> which would help solving this problem.
>
> Greerings,
> Veli-Pekka
>