Samba Printing Woes

Antonio Montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Sun Apr 24 15:49:00 UTC 2005


Richard Crawford wrote / ha scritto on /il 24/04/2005 17:20:

>On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:59, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>  
>
>>>Unfortunately, I can't get the printer -- my sturdy, reliable HP 712C --
>>>to be seen in Samba.  When I st up the printer locally on the server, it
>>>works just fine, and prints test pages beautifully.  However, I'm having
>>>no luck at all sharing out the printer via Samba.
>>>
>>>Here is the Samba information from the printer, generated by SWAT:
>>>
>>>[Fluffy]
>>>       path = /var/spool/samba
>>>       guest ok = Yes
>>>       printable = Yes
>>>       browseable = Yes
>>>
>>>This configuration worked perfectly under RH8, which was running Samba 2.
>>> The new server runs Samba 3, but I can't find anything on Google which
>>>would indicate that anything needs to be changed.
>>>
>>>I'm at my wit's end, and I need to print up some documents.  What am I
>>>doing wrong?
>>>
>>> 
>>>      
>>>
>>This is my samba.conf file, and printer works on my network...I guess
>>thet you didn't uncomment the raw printing lines in mime.convs and
>>mime.types file in /etc/samba directory.
>>    
>>
>
>Hm.  The /etc/samba directory on this computer has neither mime.types nor 
>mime.convs files.
>
>  
>
My mistake .
Directory is /ect/cups.
Sorry

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