On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:06, M.Hockings wrote: > Edward wrote: > > 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 I don't see where you need Samba. - perhaps I missed something? But here is a similar issue, but on FC2(?) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg03791.html which worked for me as well. The deal for me was to edit cups.conf. See section "Modify cups configuration" at http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html hth chris -- Certified Microsoft-free e-mail.
