On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 23:13, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I've been trying to share my printer that is connected to my linux > computer to my bf's windows xp machine. The two computers are connected > (by wireless) to a linksys router so they're on the same subnet. There > isn't a chance the router could be blocking the connection, is there? > The wireless is running on eth1 and I can ping from one machine to the > other. > > I also have vmware running on my linux machine so I can do tests > locally. When I run "net view \\gmc" on my vmware guest I get a list of > shares and can connect to the printer and see the files in the > "testshare" share. If I run the same comand on my bf's computer I get > access denied. It's not firewall related because I'm testing it with no > rules set. > > I'm including my smb.conf below. > > [global] > workgroup = HOME > interfaces = eth1 vmnet1 > bind interfaces only = yes > load printers = yes > printing = cups > printcap name = cups > guest account = smbprint > domain master = no > local master = yes > preferred master = yes > os level = 65 > [testshare] > comment = test path to tmp > path =/tmp > browseable = yes > guest ok = yes > writable = no > [printers] > comment = Linux printer > path = /home/smbprint > browseable = yes > public = yes > guest ok = yes > writable = yes > printable = yes > printer admin = root > use client driver = yes > Gordon, Check the permissions on /home/smbprint. All printer users must be able to write/create in that directory. I also added cups options = raw to the printers stanza in smb.conf. Bob...
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