Re: FC4 Printer Sharing

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On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 12:47 -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> L. Paul Andralouis wrote:
> > You might want to try sharing it as a CUPS printer. 
> > Try searching the internet for "share CUPS printer
> > with  Windows" or something similar.
> > 
> > --Paul
> > --- Oliver Sampson <olsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> 
> what does your cupsd.conf look like? 

<Location /printers/Epson>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType None
Allow from All

Interestingly there's no </location> at the end of the file. (that part
was automatically generated by system-config-printer.  So, does that
entry even makes sense?

>  what about the permissions in 
> cupsd.conf with regard to the individual printers?  what does your samba 
> log say.  what does your cups log say?
> 

The error log says:
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Sending browsing info to ffffffff:631
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Listening to 0:631
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Loaded configuration file
"/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per
host.
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Full reload is required.
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 15
PPDs...
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] Full reload complete.

Thanks,
-- 
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olsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx         http://cdbaby.com/group/MrSampson
http://www.oliversampson.com


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