[Samba] Samba printer questions
David F. Reed
davereed at W5SV.ORG
Wed Nov 27 19:38:04 GMT 2002
Greetings Samba users;
I am new to this, and find it a bit complex and am hoping
to find a bit of help figuring this out...
I am running samba-2.2.7-1.7.3 on a RH-linux 7.3 system.
The file shares seem to work fine on a XP Home Edition,
but not a XP Professional edition.
Additionally, I am having trouble setting up a shared printer.
The laptop running XP home edition sees the printer but cannot
print to it; (the box running XP pro fails to see it at all.
I am trying to use the same printer I have as a local printer,
an HP LJ-1200 - it works fine as a local printer, and it shows
up in /etc/printcap as expected.
In setting the share for the printer, I set the printer name as
scribble (same as share name), the print queue to
/var/spool/lpd/scribble (same as set by printcap),
printable to all users.
When I try to add a printer from my laptop xp home edition box,
it does find the printer, lets me add the driver for it, and it
shows up as a printer, but it shows the "access denied, unable
to connect" message and refuses (appropriately I suppose) to
print to it.
Meanwhile, the box running XP pro fails to see it at all.
Anyone out there with some clues that might help me get it running?
Thanks
--
Dave
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David F. Reed -> email: W5SV at arrl.net
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