Bob Chiodini wrote:
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...
Morning Gordon,
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet or not, but I found that if you are using cups, and by the looks of your smb.conf you are, did you modify the mime.convs and mime.types file in /etc/cups directory. There is one line in each file that needs to be uncommented. They are at the bottom of each of these files in the Raw section. When I was sitting up my RH9 and to get my windows PC's to print to the printer attached to my server, this is what did it for me.
HTH!!
Lee Perez
