Hi

I am having problems sharing a printer in Linux.

I have installed the Brother H-1040 Laser printer on my Linux Red Hat 9 PC. I have made sure that the Printer is shared to All Hosts however nobody else on the network is able to print to. Windows XP says that Access in denied.

Not sure how this COULD be because everyone has rights.

I have a hunch that it has SOMETHING to do with Samba file server but not sure how to fix it... PLEASE feel free to look my up on Yahoo: chris_w_b2002 and help me out.

I've had the same and similar problems. Here is what I had in my smb.conf when I finally got the XP client to successfully print.

#global
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
disable spoolss = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = lpstat
map to guest = Bad User

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
printable = yes
use client driver = yes


Let me know if this works...

well the access problem appears to be gone however the printer still wont print...

It APPEARS to send the print job from my XP box... no errors but it doesnt seem to arrive.. cause it doesnt appear in the q and no job is printed!!

CUPS won't allow clients to send binary data to a print queue by default as it regards it as a denial of service attack on the printer. CUPS expects nice things like plain text and postscript. To get CUPS to except the binary data from your XP clients you probably need to edit two files

Edit /etc/cups/mime.types

scroll to near the bottom and uncomment (remove the hash) from this line

application/octet-stream

Now edit/etc/cups/mime.convs

Scroll to near the end again and uncomment the line that looks like

application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

Now restart CUPS

service cups restart

and you're good to go. Hope that helps. Had the same problem myself.

Thanks Guys all working!

*high fives everyone* hehehe