[mdlug] Trouble printing to CUPS from other computers

[Daud Lee Lambert]

I finally got it to work.  In /etc/samba/smb.conf,  in the [printers] share,
the "path=" line was pointing to a location that was not world-writable.  I
switched it to "path=/var/spool/samba" and now it works fine.

I also commented out the line "public=yes",  but I don't think that was the
problem.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Hanson" <jhansonxi at gmail.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Trouble printing to CUPS from other computers


> On 8/5/07, David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:
> > I have a DeskJet attached to a computer running Ubuntu F (originally
Ubuntu
> > D),  and I want to print to it from a computer running Windows ME.
Several
> > months ago, I had the printer attached to the Windows ME box,  and I was
able
> > to print directly and also from my laptop (which was running Debian 3.1,
now
> > Debian 4.0, with LPRng).  I had to do some tinkering to figure out how
to
> > print from my laptop after moving the printer;  but I can't figure out
how to
> > print from Windows.  I've tried configuring Samba on the Ubuntu box;
> > installing a Postscript driver on Windows;  and reconfiguring
Samba+LPRng on
> > another computer that runs Debian 4.0.  Nothing works.  (Actually,  I
can't
> > print from the second Debian box either...)
>
> Can you connect to a share on Ubuntu from the Windows system?  If not
> then it's an authentication problem.  Without the Windows box logging
> into an account on Samba, it probably can't access anything.  In
> peer-to-peer setups I normally have the following in the
> /etc/samba/smb.conf global section:
>
>    guest ok = yes
>    map to guest = bad user
>    guest account = nobody
>    invalid users = root
>
> Don't try this without a network firewall in place because it opens up
> access to the whole world.
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