[Samba] Desperate plea for help with printer share

[Gary Dale]

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?