Apologies for the last email. (keyboard shortcuts are great unless you hit the wrong combination) So, to finish the question: Configuration: I have a Canon S630 USB printer attached to a machine running Fedora Core 1 linux. The printer works fine on the linux machine (can print CUPS test page w/o issue) and using the Printer GUI configuration tool I have enabled sharing for all hosts on my LAN. I also have SAMBA configured and running and am able to sucessfully share three directories with a Windows XP machine, a Windows 2000 Pro machine, and a Mac iBook runing OS X. The Mac has no problem printing full color test pages to the USB printer either. Problem: While both Windows boxes can see and install the network printer (only complaint from Windows is that the driver needs to be installed), neither machine can successfully send any print job (from any application) to the printer. Other details: - I've made sure the print spool (/var/spool/samba) is world-accessible. - I've enabled the Guest accounts on both Windows boxes and created a guest account with a simple password on FC1. - I can run smbclient //centauri/canon_s630 -U Guest from the local machine and at the smb /> prompt print a file without a problem. - When attempting to set the printer to a RAW print device, local printing failed and it did not change networked printing results. Same when changing to a generic Postscript printer. - This printer has never been sharable in Windows and I was hoping to use linux as a print server (as opposed to buying a hardware one) to share it amongst my three other computers (and any guest computers that may join the network temporarily) My /etc/samba/smb.conf looks like: [printers] path = /var/spool/samba read only = yes printable = yes guest ok = yes public = yes use client driver = yes browseable = no and I've created a second printer entry that looks identical for [canon_s630] - All the windows boxes (and Mac machine) can see the linux server (centauri), but the linux machine cannot resolve any NetBIOS names of the windows machines. It can, however see them when accessing them by IP directly. - My Linksys router w/ 4-port switch is acting as my DHCP server. I plan on changing that to have my linux server be the DNS server as well as the DHCP server for the LAN. Would this have any effect on printing from Windows? If I ever get this to work, I'm going to do my damnedest to write the HOWTO on USB printer sharing from Linux to Windows because this seems like a common problem but I can't find any good solution resources. Thank you for all your help! Sorry for the first half-post. Cheers! Brion
