Oliver Sampson wrote: > Howdy, > I'm having trouble getting my printer to share to my other Windows > computers on my network via Samba. The funny thing is that I had this > set up a coupla years ago on FC2, and it was a piece of cake. Now, > there's nothing but problems. > > I turned on Samba and browsing for printers in Samba. My Windows > machines can now see my Linux machine via the Network Neighborhood, but > not the printer. > > I turned on printer sharing in the system-config-printer utility, but > that doesn't seem to make a difference. > > Here's the printer part of my smb.conf > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = yes > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print > guest ok = yes > ; writeable = no > printable = yes > public = yes > > Any tips? > Do you have something like this in the Global section? # 2. Printing Options: # CHANGES TO ENABLE PRINTING ON ALL CUPS PRINTERS IN THE NETWORK # (as cups is now used in linux-mandrake 7.2 by default) # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this printcap name = cups load printers = yes # It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless # yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx, cups printing = cups Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
