Running Centos 5 (RHEL) cannot connect to printer on W2k system

Bill Morita · 08-03-2009, 12:06 PM

I was able to connect to my printer on a Win2k system with earlier versions of Centos.
The Win2k system is set to workgroup MSHOME. I try to connect, it can see the W2k server but does not show any printers available.
What am I doing wrong?

dpeterson3 · 08-03-2009, 03:42 PM

Can you connent to the printers from other systems? Can you browse folders on the Win2k machine fromyour linux box? Are you sure samba is configured correctly? What does your samba confing file look like?

Bill Morita · 08-08-2009, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dpeterson3

Can you connent to the printers from other systems? Can you browse folders on the Win2k machine fromyour linux box? Are you sure samba is configured correctly? What does your samba confing file look like?

The Centos machine has the following setup in the

Quote:

[global]
workgroup = mshome
; netbios name = goku
server string = file server
security = share
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.1.
; encrypt passwords = yes
; guest account = nobody
# client lanman auth = Yes

[datashare]
path = /shares/shared
comment = Shared data files (R/W)
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
; browseable = yes

Other XP boxes with the name workgroup can print to the W2K box.