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, -- Oliver Sampson Support Indie Music! olsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://cdbaby.com/group/MrSampson http://www.oliversampson.com
