M.Hockings wrote:
Hey Mike. I remember doing this way back and running into the exact same problems. It has something to do with permissions. Do you get 'Connect error - access denied', when you look at the printers folder in W2K/XP?
Regards, Ed.
Yup, Win2K reports "Access denied, unable to connect". FCx doesn't appear to report anything, just nothing gets printed.
Mike
Yes. Good fun isn't it. You'd think after all these samba releases since 97 or so, we'd finally be rid of this kind of crud.
Look, I remember screwing with machine names, user names and passwords, samba configuration settings, and CUPS setting (for raw printing). Eventually it worked (although the access denied message never went away). A few releases later and I haven't bothered trying any more.
I did keep a link from then though - and it looks like it could help:
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2546603
Oh, and please be aware if your printer uses a print monitor, it will not work through samba period.
Sorry I don't have a definitive answer. I couldn't find one way back then either.
Regards, Ed.
Thanks Ed,
I'll ponder though it and see what I can get to work. I've tried using LPR from Win2K and CUPS from FC1 to print to the problematic printer queue but to no avail. I really can't imagine that is should be this difficult. So I figure I must be missing something along the way.
Mike
