On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:17 +0100, William Murray wrote: > Hello there, > I have a firewall/router/print-server running F7 which has > problems with samba. > The printer was shared by clicking the 'share' box in > system-config-printer, and this works, and can be accessed remotely. > However, at boot-up the printer (and samba shares) cannot be seen by > other systems. When I fiddle with system-config-printer (e.g. switch > sharing off and then on again) it then works. (and so do the samba > shares) > I guess the problem might be iptables related as I have my own setup > for the router bit. But "iptables -L" does not seem to be changing. > Does anyone have an idea what might be changing? > Better still, how to make it work without the palaver? ---- I would think from your description that the issue is that neither cupsd nor smb daemons are set to run at startup. get a virtual console (command line) su to root (su -) chkconfig cups on chkconfig smb on and see what happens after the next restart. otherwise, it's possible that the problem is with cups.conf itself. Try this... reboot open a virtual console (command line) su to root (su -) cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /tmp/cupsd.conf cp /etc/cups/printers.conf /tmp/printers.conf then do whatever it is you do to make printer sharing work again then back to the virtual console diff -u /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /tmp/cupsd.conf diff -u /etc/cups/printers.conf /tmp/printers.conf let us know the output of those commands (this will tell us what changed if anything) -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
