[Samba] share CUPS printer/scanner in Debian system with Windows computers in home network

[Ryan Suarez]

Seb wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:19:48 -0500,
> Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridanc.on.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> can you 'ping kolob' from the windows client?  and 'telnet kolob 445'?
>>     
>
> OK, I was able to connect to the Samba shares by using the IP address
> rather than the computer name.  I was asked to provide my user name and
> password, and then the explorer window came up showing the printers and
> the file shares.  However, how could this Samba server be made visible
> in the "Network" so that the printers alone can be added to those
> Windows clients by any user (they don't need to be valid Unix/Samba
> users in the server) by just doing "add network printer"?  Why can't the
> "add network printer" not be able to detect the public printers by just
> browsing?  Thanks so much for the guidance!
>   
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2581356