On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:10 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 13 February 2006 12:06, Craig White wrote: > > home share. > > > > Cups by default does not share printers - you have to tell it to do > > that. All you really need to do to share a printer is to use > > system-config-printer and indicate which printer you want to share. It > > seems that you want to complicate things. > > > Sometimes the need to define the problem to post to list helps you get focus. > I had printer entries visible in system-config-printer that were not > shareable, or editable. I opened up the cups config screen and deleted the > entries, then re-added them from system-config-printer. They are now usable > on other boxes on the lan. > > Now I need to solve the problem of 'homes' > > Anne > Anne, Could this be something on the Windows side? Between the single quotes should be a directory. Try ethereal to "sniff" the network. I'm not up on windows, but could the user be trying to connect with a null string in the "connect as user" dialog? Bob...
