Need Help with samba printer server on RH9

phaeton · 07-11-2003, 07:09 PM

Okay I got my printer printing locally on redhat 9, and now I want to setup a samba share for the printer. Everything is installed correctly, except for the actual configuration of samba. I don't know where to point which directory, and some tutorials tell me to look in my printcap file but there is only BJ-200e: in the file and nothing else. Any help would be appreciated.

Mathieu · 07-12-2003, 04:04 PM

If you are able to print locally, then you need to configure Samba.

You will need to change a few lines in the smb.conf
- Set the workgroup field to your current WorkGroup
- Make sure the [printers] share is uncommented.
- Set "printing = " to the name of your printing system (lprng, cups, aix, etc)
- you may need to setup Unix users and Samba users.

Consider reading the SMB HOWTO
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/SMB-HOWTO.html

phaeton · 07-13-2003, 10:11 PM

Thanks for the response but the problem is I don't have any printer share and in all these howtos it says to point to /var/spool/lpd/lp and I don't have that directory. I'm using CUPS, I just need help with the [printers] section and [global] section that relates to printing.

Is there some sort of GUI for samba configs?