On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:44 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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
Yeah, I changed that, too, except for the first line, it's the same.
Should the printcap name really be "cups"?
printcap name = /etc/printcap
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
printing = cups
>
> # 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
>
Thanks,
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