On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 18:31 -0400, Tom Broadhurst wrote: > > Am Di, den 05.07.2005 schrieb Tom Broadhurst um 21:55: > > ... > > > When I set-up the printer on windoz, it seems to go OK, but > > the printer > > > status is "Access denied, unable to connect". Had a similar problem and found the solution to be in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Here's my current printers stanza: [printers] comment = All Beech CUPS Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes public = Yes printable = Yes browseable = Yes map to guest = bad user use client driver = yes I believe the key to be the "client driver" bit. ... > > > Deny From All > > > Allow From 127.0.0.1 > > > > Here you say that only localhost is allowed to use "laser". > > > > But, 2 lines down it says Allow from All. > I didn't put these here. It's auto generated > > The queue is labeled "laser", Locally-connected to device /dev/lp0. > On the Sharing page/popup it says This queue is available to other computers > and the Allowed hosts says "All hosts". > Can I edit this file manually? If so how do I keep printconf from changing > it. This is a continuing PITA. Advice I got from a Red Hat guy on an earlier thread when I voiced a similar complaint was "rpm -e system- config-printer" but that seems like a cop-out. If anyone knows a more elegant way to avoid clobbering of manual CUPS changes, please post the solution. I've found that CUPS does not work in a non-trivial environment without some fiddling, and have learned the hard way to always back up cupsd.conf before meddling with anything printer-related. > > > AuthType None > > > Allow from All That would seem to do it, however, you might want to limit it to local machines with a subnet mask: Allow From 192.168.1.0/24 Allow From 128.156.0.0/16 Or whatever... Phil