[Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

Gary Dale garydale at torfree.net
Wed Apr 3 07:02:17 MDT 2013


On 01/04/13 07:55 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> 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.
>

That's not good enough. Has the cups configuration been set to allow 
users to connect from the LAN?


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