Printer shares question

[William R. Knox]

Jonathan,
I do believe it's the 'browseable = no' parameter in your [printers]
section that's doing this. Try setting it to yes and see what happens.
Good luck!

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Jonathan Bayer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I checked the archives, but couldn't find this question:
> 
> I have two printers set up on my RedHat Linux 6.1 box, called lp0 and lp1 (original, huh?).  Anyway, I want both of these printers to be visible
> and browsable on the network.  I have the following relevant lines in my smb.conf file:
> 
>      printcap name = /etc/printcap
>      load printers = yes
> 
>      [printers]
>           comment = All Printers
>           path = /var/spool/samba
>           browseable = no
>           public = yes
>           guest ok = yes
>           writable = no
>           printable = yes
> 
> While I can net use to the printers, they don't show up in a net view or when I look at the Network window on the Windows desktop.  Do I need
> to specify each printer I want to be publicly visible, or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> JBB