[Samba] Problems adding a printer share

[Gary Dale]

Not an expert on CUPS either, but my server setup has
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.2.*
</Location>

where my local network is in the 192.168.2 subnet.

I also have a
Port 631
line in the .conf file. I don't know if it's necessary but you could try 
adding it.

And after making the changes, be sure to restart CUPS.


Michael Powell wrote:
> Looking at localhost:631, it looks like it should be all set up.  Still,
> I went ahead and changed the conf file.  The values with the '#' are what it
> said, and the uncommented values are what I set it to.  I would think that "all"
> would be the least permissive, but Windows still thinks the printer is offline.
>
> I also checked the printers.conf, and the printer in question is set as Share
> Yes.
>
> # Enable printer sharing and shared printers.
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> #BrowseAllow @LOCAL
> #BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> BrowseAllow all
> BrowseAddress all
> DefaultAuthType Basic
> <Location />
>   # Allow shared printing...
>   Order allow,deny
> #  Allow @LOCAL
>   Allow all
> </Location>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:02:14 -0400
> Gary Dale <garydale at torfree.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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