Re: [SLE] printer sharing

From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde_at_chethams.org.uk)
Date: 06/07/04

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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:28:50 +0100

    On Monday 07 June 2004 09:16, Maxwell Terpstra wrote:
    > I am trying to help someone in my town to set up printer sharing with
    > his linux box, and so far we have failed miserably... Perhaps someone
    > can give some insight as to where I may be going wrong?
    >
    > The setup is as follows:
    > - two-system network, one winXP-home SP1, one SuSE linux 9.1
    > -- linux box using a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 ethernet card. Set up
    > by YaST. Using DHCP to determine an IP. File and printer sharing
    > enabled within WORKGROUP through samba, using a NetBIOS name of "linux"
    > -- windows box using an integrated ethernet card with VIA Rhine II
    > chipset. Named "windows" on domain WORKGROUP.
    > - ethernet cable connects the two computers directly (eg. no hub)
    > - _only_ LAN over ethernet - connect to a dial-up ISP separately on
    > each machine
    > - printer is an Epson Stylus C84, connected by par-port
    >
    > Both systems can print fine locally (SuSE uses Gimp-Print/foomatic).
    >
    > I first tried connecting the printer to the windows box, and enabled
    > sharing in the printer's properties dialogue. However, we weren't able
    > to connect from the linux end. Windows was asking for a password, but
    > there was only one account set up (the administrator), and it didn't
    > have a password! Simply pressing enter at the password prompt did not
    > work. I tried creating another administrator account with a password,
    > but it didn't accept that password either. To verify that it was a
    > problem on the windows end, I tried connecting my mac laptop to the
    > network and accessing the windows box from there. Still no luck. At
    > this point I also noticed that file-sharing did not appear to be
    > working properly either - the windows system appeared on the network,
    > but it wasn't sharing any of the files it was supposed to.
    >
    > Next I tried connecting the printer to the linux system. This worked
    > even less.. I couldn't even get the linux host to show up on the
    > network, let alone allow access to the printer service!
    >
    > Any suggestions/links you could provide would be much appreciated.
    > I've mucked through quite a few samba howto's at this point, but none
    > of it seems to help. The SuSE documentation wasn't too forthcoming
    > either - it's all full of networking theory, and doesn't seem to give
    > any really useful directions besides "use YaST" :(
    >
    > smb.conf is attached. let me know if you need anything else.
    >
    > --Maxwell Terpstra

    Beyond saying that I notice there has just been a Samba update for 9.1 and
    that it might be worth trying, can't help much more, I fear.

    Did you set up an account matching that on the Windows box on the linux box
    with smbpasswd?

    Can you ping either from either?

    If the Windows host is asking for a password I suppose that's a helpful
    sign ... BTW smbd and nmbd both produce logs, they might be worth consulting
    if you haven't already as they can tell you at what point things are failing.
    You can adjust their debug level if I remember correctly, but don't have the
    resources on hand to tell you exactly how.

    Hope this is not entirely useless,
    Best
    Fergus 

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Fergus Wilde
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Long Millgate
Manchester
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Tel: +44 161 834 7961
Fax: +44 161 839 5797
http://www.chethams.org.uk
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