On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:28 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 13 February 2006 12:06, Craig White wrote: > > ---- > > I've already told you how to find the problem that it logs about your > > home share. > > > Testparm does not indicate any problem at all, and I can't find any log entry > that helps. > > > 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. > > > Running system-config-printer on the server shows the three instances of my system-config-printer is not cups. Configure them with your browser at localhost:631 to set the printers up in cups. I had problems with remote hosts using my local printer when set up using system-config-printer but when I used cups it seemed ridiculously easy. > printer as set up in cups, but none of them are marked for sharing. > Highlighting the queues in turn, I am not allowed to edit (or delete), it > seems, and I can't see any way to turn the sharing on without accessing that > edit screen. I've also looked at the cups configuration utility (via > localhost:631) but there is no way there of enabling sharing. > > This seems to be the key to the problem. What do you suggest is the next line > of investigation? > > Anne > >
