should i use samba if my printer is under linux.

wood · 10-25-2003, 05:22 AM

i have a couple of linux box and window box , i put the printer under the linux box, so should i use samba, if i want to share among them. i am really have a big truouble in it.

Crashed_Again · 10-25-2003, 06:27 AM

Yeah samba is what you need. You can set the printer up as a share on the linux box and then map a drive to the share from the windows box. Will your next question be how exactly do you do that?

wood · 10-26-2003, 05:34 AM

Yes. How do i do that. Sorry if I really ask this stupid question.

_KDF · 10-26-2003, 06:03 AM

hehe.. not a stupid question at all, but I will let someone else answer as so far all my samba stuff has been done through a pretty GUI

Crashed_Again · 10-26-2003, 07:01 AM

I'd suggest using SWAT which is the nice GUI used to setup SAMBA. Do a search on this site for using SWAT. Their are tons of threads on it.

wood · 10-26-2003, 07:50 PM

I have use swat to do it, but maybe the setting is not correct. In the windows box i keep getting this message about the printer i add " Access Denied, unable to connect to host. " Are there any solution for this.

megaspaz · 10-26-2003, 09:28 PM

my guess is in swat, click the printer icon. choose your printer and then look for allow guest. set that to yes and click the commit changes button. hopefully that's all you have to do.

wood · 10-26-2003, 10:43 PM

i have try it, but still cannot.

megaspaz · 10-27-2003, 09:55 PM

did you restart the smb and lisa daemons?