FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98

[M.Hockings]

Edward wrote:
> M.Hockings wrote:
> 
>>> Hey Mike. I remember doing this way back and running into the exact 
>>> same problems. It has something to do with permissions. Do you get 
>>> 'Connect error - access denied', when you look at the printers folder 
>>> in W2K/XP?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yup, Win2K reports "Access denied, unable to connect".  FCx doesn't 
>> appear to report anything, just nothing gets printed.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> Yes. Good fun isn't it. You'd think after all these samba releases since 
> 97 or so, we'd finally be rid of this kind of crud.
> 
> Look, I remember screwing with machine names, user names and passwords, 
> samba configuration settings, and CUPS setting (for raw printing). 
> Eventually it worked (although the access denied message never went 
> away). A few releases later and I haven't bothered trying any more.
> 
> I did keep a link from then though - and it looks like it could help:
> 
> http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2546603 
> 
> 
> Oh, and please be aware if your printer uses a print monitor, it will 
> not work through samba period.
> 
> Sorry I don't have a definitive answer. I couldn't find one way back 
> then either.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.

Thanks Ed,

I'll ponder though it and see what I can get to work.  I've tried using 
LPR from Win2K and CUPS from FC1 to print to the problematic printer 
queue but to no avail.  I really can't imagine that is should be this 
difficult.  So I figure I must be missing something along the way.


Mike