FC4 Printer Sharing

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 21:13 +0100, Oliver Sampson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 12:47 -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> > L. Paul Andralouis wrote:
> > > 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,
> > >>
> > 
> > what does your cupsd.conf look like? 
> 
> <Location /printers/Epson>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> AuthType None
> Allow from All
> 
There must be a /location> tag for each <location tag


> Interestingly there's no </location> at the end of the file. (that part
> was automatically generated by system-config-printer.  So, does that
> entry even makes sense?
> 
> >  what about the permissions in 
> > cupsd.conf with regard to the individual printers?  what does your samba 
> > log say.  what does your cups log say?
> > 
> 
> The error log says:
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Sending browsing info to ffffffff:631
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Listening to 0:631
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Loaded configuration file
> "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per
> host.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:21 +0100] Full reload is required.
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 15
> PPDs...
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [12/Feb/2006:04:02:22 +0100] Full reload complete.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
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