Hi all Having lots of fun reading about samba (last I knew it was a dance...). Making some progress on sharing a Deskjet printer attached to a windows xp machine.

from my Deb 4.0 machine I have issued smbclient -L FRED -N and the result was great it found my Windows printer share called Deskjet940c. So far so good.

I'm now configuring CUPS following a nice 'mini howto' but here's where my knowledge falls down a bit (a lot). I issued this:

lpadmin -p FREDPrinter -v smb://FRED/Deskjet940c -P /root/deskjet940c.ppd

But I'm cooked now as it complains with:

lpadmin: No such file or directory

Should I put //FRED/Deskjet940c in the printer share in smb.conf?

also is /root/deskjet940c.ppd supposed to be a printer driver for the HP Deskjet? Where might I get such a beast?

Thanks a lot for any help,
Greeb

If you're not root, you probably have to specify the /sbin directory where lpadmin probably lives.
Try that for starters.

--- rod.