[K12OSN] Printing using Samba

[dahopkins at comcast.net]

Pat,
I have this same setup, and discovered last weekend that the startup sequence for CUPS and Samba is very important (at least on K12LTSP 3.1.x).  Cups needs to start before Samba.  Otherwise, it seems that Samba doesn't see all the printers that Cups is providing.  I had to change my startup sequence in the rc5 directory. I did this by simply changing cups from S90Cups to S34Cups.  Samba is S35Samba.  This seems to work for me. Prior to this change, printers did not consistently show up in the browse list on Windows.
There are a couple of setting in the smb.conf file that need to be changed.  Be sure that printing = cups is defined. Also, you will need either printcap name = cups or printcap name = /etc/printcap .  For some reason, printcap name = cups doesn't work for me, but the second (and supposedly incorrect approach) does.
Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins

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> this is what I have... 
> 
> [printers] 
> comment = All Printers 
> path = /var/spool/samba 
> printable = Yes 
> browseable = No 
> 
> 
> for the [printers] section of my smb.conf.... 
> this shares all printers....and in winXP i just browse the workgroup and 
> double click on the printer in my LTSP server 
> and it automagically starts the add printer wizard thing =) 
> 
> --Huck 
> 
> jconlon1 wrote: 
> 
> >I have a laser printer on my Linux Server which is using K12lsstp 4.0.1 
> >Fedora core. I have a computer that is running Windows XP PRO that I need 
> >to have use the laser printer. I have 2 questions: 
> >1. How do I correctly set up the K12ltsp servers Samba and Cups so that the 
> >Windows XP machine can find it and the printer? 
> >2. How do I or What do I need to do in the Windows machine for it to be able 
> >to identify the printer on the K12ltsp server? 
> >Thanks 
> >Pat 
> > 
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