FC4 Printer Sharing

L. Paul Andralouis pandralouis at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 12 12:20:01 UTC 2006


You might want to try sharing it as a CUPS printer. 
Try searching the internet for "share CUPS printer
with  Windows" or something similar.

--Paul
--- Oliver Sampson <olsam at quickaudio.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> I'm having trouble getting my printer to share to my
> other Windows
> computers on my network via Samba.  The funny thing
> is that I had this
> set up a coupla years ago on FC2, and it was a piece
> of cake.  Now,
> there's nothing but problems.
> 
> I turned on Samba and browsing for printers in
> Samba. My Windows
> machines can now see my Linux machine via the
> Network Neighborhood, but
> not the printer.
> 
> I turned on printer sharing in the
> system-config-printer utility, but
> that doesn't seem to make a difference.
> 
> Here's the printer part of my smb.conf
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = yes
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to
> print
>         guest ok = yes
> ;       writeable = no
>         printable = yes
>         public = yes
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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