[Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

[Mark LaPierre]

On 03/30/2013 11:45 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 30/03/13 08:38 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Hey Y'all,
>>
>> I've been trying for months to get samba to share my printer with my
>> wife's Win XP machine.  I've RTFM, and spent hours on google to no avail.
>>
>> I can't see the printer from Windows so I can't mount it up.  Nothing
>> appears in the logs.  The file shares work just fine.
>>
>> It looks like I've got Samba 3.6.9 on this machine:
>>
>> [mlapier at mushroom samba]$ rpm -qa | grep samba
>> samba-swat-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-doc-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-client-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-winbind-clients-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-common-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-winbind-devel-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-winbind-krb5-locator-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-domainjoin-gui-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba-winbind-3.6.9-151.el6.i686
>> samba4-libs-4.0.0-55.el6.rc4.i686
>> [mlapier at mushroom samba]$ name
>> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
>> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 12
>> 21:42:46 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> [mlapier at mushroom samba]$ testparm
>> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
>> Processing section "[homes]"
>> Processing section "[printers]"
>> Processing section "[pictures]"
>> Processing section "[budget]"
>> Loaded services file OK.
>> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
>> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>>
>> [global]
>>     server string = Samba Server Version %v
>>     log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>     max log size = 50
>>     printcap name = cups
>>     idmap config * : backend = tdb
>>
>> [homes]
>>     comment = Home Directories
>>     read only = No
>>     browseable = No
>>
>> [printers]
>>     comment = All Printers
>>     path = /var/spool/samba
>>     guest ok = Yes
>>     printable = Yes
>>     print ok = Yes
>>     browseable = No
>>
>> [pictures]
>>     comment = Pictures
>>     path = /home/pictures
>>     read only = No
>>     guest ok = Yes
>>
>> [budget]
>>     comment = Budget
>>     path = /home/budget
>>     valid users = nllapie, mlapier
>>     read only = No
>> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$
>>
>> Is there anything else I can share with you that will help you to
>> diagnose my problem?
>
> Have you checked the CUPS printer sharing?
>

Sure enough.  The printer shared check box is checked so that's not the 
problem.

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