[Samba] Problems adding a printer share

[Gary Dale]

It's very important that your CUPS configuration allows printing from 
your local network. If not, Windows won't see it. Check your 
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf to make sure it allows printing from other than 
localhost.


Michael Powell wrote:
> Gary,
> Thanks!  I think there must be slightly more to it, though.  If I give
> it that address (or anything like it), Win98 reports that the printer is 
> offline & that I can install it but can't print to it until it returns
> online.  Since it is online, that tells me something is not quite 
> right.
>
> If I type that address into a web browser on the Windows machine, it 
> does show up.  But there is something about it that the Windows print
> manager does not like.
>
> I tried it as you have it typed below, as well as:
> \\server:631\printers\printername
>
> Windows does not like either one.
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:47:33 -0400
> Gary Dale <garydale at torfree.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> You don't need Samba to print. As long as you set up your CUPS 
>> configuration to allow other local addresses to print to the server, you 
>> can print to it from windows using 
>> http://<servername>:631/printers/<printername>, where you replace 
>> <servername> and <pritnername> with the appropriate values. <servername> 
>> can also be an IP address.
>>
>> If this works, you can also (but don't have to) set up the printer to be 
>> shared via Samba by adding a section to your Samba configuration. I 
>> recommend that you use SWAT for this - it makes it easy.
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