i'm running a two computer workgroup. computer A has Win XP running with a canon i450 printer.computer B is running slack 9.1 with samba 3.01
i have successfully managed to share and i can see computer b from a but i'm having a really hard time sharing the printer and having it print from computer b. i've installed CUPS on my machine running slack but for some reason its not printing, its not even recognizing the share.
i know i'm doing something wrong, so i anyone could guide me through
the setup i would really appreciate it.
thanks in advance

I had a similar setup but the Windows box had an Epson Stylus C62. What I did is set it up through Mozilla http://localhost:631. But before I did that I ran this command as root:

ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb

Those are " ` " the ones located next to the 1 key.
Then in Mozilla select "Windows printer via Samba".
That's how I got it working, hope it helps you out.

i tried to do that, but it comes back with this error message :
"/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" : File Exists

The only other thing that I can think of at the moment is to make sure your Windows printer is shared, make sure your /etc/samba/smb.conf is configured right then do a smbclient -L < i.p. or hostname of Windows box>
from your Slackware machine to see if you see the printer. If so you should be able to set it up through localhost:631. Hope you get it working.

if its possible, can you give me a sample of your smb.conf file.... i'm pretty sure i don't have it setup correctly. i'd really appreciate it. thanks

I no longer have the same setup, but as I remember the only things I had to change in /etc/samba/smb.conf was the workgroup name and there was a line similar to this:

; printing = bsd

there were a couple other choices too, like lpr, and printcap I think. Anyway, I just uncommented it and changed it to "cups"