[Samba] Setting up a cups printer

[Darrell Blake]

On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:22 pm, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Message: 24
> > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:59:57 +0100
> > From: Darrell Blake <darrell at dunmanifestin.co.uk>
> > Subject: [Samba] Setting up a cups printer
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Message-ID: <200306211259.57095.darrell at dunmanifestin.co.uk>
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> > I'm trying to set up a cups printer but I don't know much about printing
> > in linux and am a bit confused.
>
> Here is the document you are looking for:
>
>     http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/
>
> (PDF and HTML).
>
> > I've installed a printer in cups using the web
> > interface and it works fine. All the tutorials I've read though refer to
> > /var/spool/lpd/lp
>
> You've read the wrong tutorials for your case....  ;-)
>
> > but on my system this doesn't exist. I'm guessing this is
> > because I'm not using lpd, I'm using cups. There are a few files in
> > /var/spool/cups but they're c00001 to c00005. Can someone shed some light
> > on my problem? My [printer] section on smb.conf currently looks like
> > this...
> >
> > [printer]
> >         browseable = yes
> >         path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
>
> Don't use the same spool dir for Samba as you use for the printing
> daemon! (since CUPS uses /var/spool/cups/ yours is OK, but I'd suggest
> to use "telling" names....)
>
> >         read only = yes
> >         printable = yes
> >         guest ok = yes
> >
> > Please help,
>
> Probably all that is missing is the "load printers = yes" (in the
> [global] section. Then your printer should at least be "visible".
> Installing a driver for the Win clients then is the next step...
> (See link above).
>
> > Darrell
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt