Samba problems

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:28 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 12:06, Craig White wrote:
> > ----
> > I've already told you how to find the problem that it logs about your
> > home share.
> >
> Testparm does not indicate any problem at all, and I can't find any log entry 
> that helps.
> 
> > Cups by default does not share printers - you have to tell it to do
> > that. All you really need to do to share a printer is to use
> > system-config-printer and indicate which printer you want to share. It
> > seems that you want to complicate things.
> >
> Running system-config-printer on the server shows the three instances of my 
system-config-printer is not cups.
Configure them with your browser at localhost:631 to set the printers up
in cups.

I had problems with remote hosts using my local printer when set up
using system-config-printer but when I used cups it seemed ridiculously
easy.

> printer as set up in cups, but none of them are marked for sharing.  
> Highlighting the queues in turn, I am not allowed to edit (or delete), it 
> seems, and I can't see any way to turn the sharing on without accessing that 
> edit screen.  I've also looked at the cups configuration utility (via 
> localhost:631) but there is no way there of enabling sharing.
> 
> This seems to be the key to the problem.  What do you suggest is the next line 
> of investigation?
> 
> Anne
> 
>