[K12OSN] Samba and cups

[Timothy Legge]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:48, John P. Conlon wrote:
> I am trying to get a Windows XP PRO machine to find an HP1200 laser 
> printer that is USB and installed under cups, connected to my K12LTSP 
> server.  I have gotten Samba to the point that I can see the server in 
> the Windows machine's windows for installing printers.  What seems to be 
> happening is that Samba is not seeing the cups installed printer so the 
> printer doesn't show up in the printer list on the Windows machine.   I 
> have tried stopping and restarting both services to get the cups running 
> in front of Samba and that hasn't made any difference.  Does anyone have 
> any ideas on how I can fix this situation?

There seems to be a bug in cups.  You need to set the username to guest
in order for it to connect to the printers.  You may need to enable the
guest user in WinXP, enable sharing of the printer, stop the xp firewall
and sacrifice small animals... (well maybe not the last part but it is
XP)

Tim