Printers browsable but...

[Martyn Ranyard]

Just type the name, sometimes network neighborhood (which is what the add
printer dialog is based upon) gets confused for the silliest of reasons,
where it says printer, type \\machinename\ptintername.  The other option is
to go to network neighborhood, then your machine (direct by \\machinename if
you want) and double click the printer, it will say something to the effect
of "to use this printer it must first be set up, do you want to do this
now?" whereupon you say yes.

Martyn Ranyard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pietraniec" <Npietran at umich.edu>
To: <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 11:21 PM
Subject: Printers browsable but...


>
> Hello all, I'm utterly confused.
>
> I'm trying to share CUPS printers on my network to Windows users via
samba...  I've added printer
> shares, then they show up - I can browse to them and print from them via
windows, but they aren't
> showing up in the "add printers" dialog box...  My computer doesn't show
up at all in that dialog
> box actually.
>
> I find this very confusing, because the printers are getting shared...
Why wouldn't they show up in
>   the Windows "add printer" tool?
>
> Thanks for your help-
>
> Nick
>
>
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