FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98

[Aly Dharshi]

I assume that you are trying to share this printer via Samba ? If so 
please let us see your smb.conf

	Aly.

M.Hockings wrote:

> Edward wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> M.Hockings wrote:
>>
>>> Please accept my apologies if this hits the list twice.  I've tried 
>>> to  send it to the list via gmane but that route does not appear to 
>>> be functioning any longer.  My inquiry follows:
>>>
>>> I am trying to share a printer attached to an FC1 box on our network. 
>>> The network has a mix of FC1, Win98, Win2K and WinXP boxes.  The 
>>> printer is configured and working just fine on the FC1 box that it is 
>>> attached to just fine.  And I have been able to configure the Win98 
>>> boxes to use it successfully as well.  However any attempt to get it 
>>> to work with other FC1 boxes, Win2K or XP fail.  Browsing for the 
>>> printer (SMB I guess?) and configuring it works just fine but 
>>> printing fails miserably. I did try turning off the firewall on the 
>>> machine with the printer but that does not seem to help.  If it 
>>> matters, the printer is an old HP DeskJet 870cxi.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts about how to make printer sharing on FC1 work with 
>>> operating systems more advanced than Win98 ?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Mike. I remember doing this way back and running into the exact 
>> same problems. It has something to do with permissions. Do you get 
>> 'Connect error - access denied', when you look at the printers folder 
>> in W2K/XP?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ed.
> 
> 
> Yup, Win2K reports "Access denied, unable to connect".  FCx doesn't 
> appear to report anything, just nothing gets printed.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

-- 
Aly Dharshi
aly.dharshi at telus.net

	"Amor est vitae essentia = Love is the essence of life"