Samba Printing Woes

Richard Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Sun Apr 24 15:20:26 UTC 2005


On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:59, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >Unfortunately, I can't get the printer -- my sturdy, reliable HP 712C --
> > to be seen in Samba.  When I st up the printer locally on the server, it
> > works just fine, and prints test pages beautifully.  However, I'm having
> > no luck at all sharing out the printer via Samba.
> >
> >Here is the Samba information from the printer, generated by SWAT:
> >
> >[Fluffy]
> >        path = /var/spool/samba
> >        guest ok = Yes
> >        printable = Yes
> >        browseable = Yes
> >
> >This configuration worked perfectly under RH8, which was running Samba 2.
> >  The new server runs Samba 3, but I can't find anything on Google which
> > would indicate that anything needs to be changed.
> >
> >I'm at my wit's end, and I need to print up some documents.  What am I
> > doing wrong?
> >
> >  
>
> This is my samba.conf file, and printer works on my network...I guess
> thet you didn't uncomment the raw printing lines in mime.convs and
> mime.types file in /etc/samba directory.

Hm.  The /etc/samba directory on this computer has neither mime.types nor 
mime.convs files.

-- 
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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