FC1 Printer sharing only works with Win98
c_r_@fedora
fedora at christopherrussell.net
Tue Sep 7 15:27:24 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:06, M.Hockings wrote:
> 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
I don't see where you need Samba. - perhaps I missed something?
But here is a similar issue, but on FC2(?)
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg03791.html
which worked for me as well. The deal for me was to edit cups.conf. See
section "Modify cups configuration" at
http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
hth
chris
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