[Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

[Mark LaPierre]

On 04/03/2013 09:02 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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?

How might you suggest that I check that setting?

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