Re: Printing from WinXP to Samba/Linux (Continuing from getting it to print to begin with -- lol)

CJ Chitwood {Circuit Breaker} wrote:

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First, you did not give some critical information here. What Linux
distribution and version? What cups version? Samba version? (If you posted
it in another thread, consider posting it again if you start another
thread). Without some more information, I would be guessing, consider
adding some additional information:

You said you can map the printer, but does it show up when browsing the
network from XP? Does your XP see the computer you are hosting the printer
on?

Do you have a firewall setup on your system?

Do you get any messages in your samba logs that show any information on a
connection attempt?


[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /home/smbprint

Do you have such a directory? Is it writable by the cups daemon?

printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0700
guest only = yes
use client driver = yes
; above line suggested by tldp howtos - win + debprint
guest account = smbprint

At the moment, I do not have cups serving a windows network, when I did,
here are some of the the things I had in my smb.conf file:

printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
printcap cache time = 60
printing = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
create mode = 0700



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