On Thursday 07 September 2006 22:30, William Case wrote: > Hi All; > > For any of you who have been following this thread. > > I have the problem fixed; by making sure the samba configuration > was entered correctly (Thank you James, Anne and Tom) and then > finding the following tutorial on the linuxprinting.org site > http://www.linuxprinting.org/~till/printing-tutorial/tut.html#1_4 > > " 4. 1. Sharing the CUPS queues to Windows clients > You also need to take care that the names of all your printers are > not longer than 12 characters. If a queue name is longer, > edit /etc/cups/printers.conf to modify the queue name and then > activate the change with the usual "killall -HUP cupsd". CUPS has > no on-board tool to rename print queues, but some other printer > setup tools, like "printerdrake" in Mandriva Linux, have." > > My printer was named "psc-1310-series---1" -- 19 characters in all. > It wasn't the name I originally gave it. The name appeared > several months ago after I had been experimenting with 'something'. > Probably supplied by kudzu or Anaconda or something else. It > worked, so I left it. In any case, it is not a name I would > choose. So something in Fedora hasn't read the Samba or Cups > manual. > > It could have been a combination of things, but as soon as I > renamed my printer HP-psc-1315 (11 characters), WindowsXP could > find my printer. That is weird! I have an HP and the printer name is HP-LaserJet-5L (14 characters) and my wife has a Windows XP home box using the printer on my FC5 box. My virtual Windows 2000 machine running in VMware on my FC5 box can't find it. -- Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net
