[Samba] Printing...

Brad sambauser at sportingwheelies.org.au
Wed Oct 16 23:07:00 GMT 2002


Yes, it can print OK. But I can't even connect to the Samba printer share with 
Win2K.

Regards,
Brad

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 20:08, you wrote:
> Can your linux box print to it? if linux can then so can samba, if not then
> samba can't
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>                     Brad
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> Printing... samba-admin at lists.samba.o
>                     rg
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>                     16/10/2002 06:26
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> I am using Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to get an HP LaserJet 4 Plus to
> become
> a shared printer so networked Windows PCs can print to it. I have Samba
> working fine for sharing files with Windows PCs and I have begun wading
> through the Samba documentation to enable printing and I have come up with
> an
> smb.conf entry that looks like this:
>
> [HP4Plus]
>         guest ok = yes
>         comment = Brad's HP Laser
>         printable = yes
>         writable = yes
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>
> Testparm says all is OK but my Win2K PC still can't see it, so do I need to
> do
> anything else? I know that there are GUI tools available, but I have to do
> this on a couple of different version Red Hat servers that don't have X
> installed, so I would like to be able to do it manually if I can. The Samba
>
> docs are pretty heavy going for me so any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Brad




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