Problems sharing a printer with Windows

From: Erica (erica_at_technodyke.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: 14 Nov 2004 14:16:01 -0800

Hi,

I recently installed Samba 3.0.8 on Fedora Core 3. It seems to be
working fine, and my Windows machine sees my Linux machine when I
click on "My Network Places". However, it is not recognizing the
printer. I can print from my Linux machine just fine, so that is not
the problem.

When I type smbclient --list localhost, I get the following output:

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.8]

        Sharename Type Comment
        --------- ---- -------
        IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
        ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
        usblp0 Printer Created by redhat-config-printer
0.6.x
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.8]

        Server Comment
        --------- -------
        STEPHTHELINUX Samba Server

        Workgroup Master
        --------- -------
        WORKGROUP STEPHTHELINUX

(Anonymous login is enabled, BTW).

So the printer (usblp0) is on the network, but Windows is just not
finding it. I can post my smb.conf file if anyone needs to see. Does
anyone know of anything necessary that I may have forgotten?

Thanks!!
--Erica

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