Samba, Printing, and Windows OH MY!

Mr. Slappy · 05-11-2005, 03:40 AM

Hi all-

I am having a problem sharing my printer . I am using RHE4 and the printer is a hp officejet v40xi. I have successfuly set it up and can print to it from the RHE box, but I can not connect to it from a windows box (xp home). I can see it on the network but I dont have access to it. I have set up the printer configuration gui to allow other computer to print to it with all host checked. This is the printer section of smb.conf

Code:

# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	browseable = yes
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
	printable = yes

So can you help me fix this? I am lost and my GF needs to print from her laptop to this box.

Thanks in advance,

Mr.Slappy

I forgot to mention I get this error on the windows box " A StartDocPrinter call was not issued."

-X- · 05-11-2005, 05:55 AM

Make sure the GUI does have it shared. I always edit my configs and scripts. Look at your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Check this and change if needed.

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
#Allow From 127.0.0.1
#
# Do this (example) to allow just your LAN.
Allow From 192.168.2.0/24
#
# Or do this to allow everyone.
#Allow From All
</Location>

Then restart cups and make sure your firewall port 631 is open.

Sometime when I pick the exact printer for the Linux print server, I have to pick a generic printer in Windows. Picking the exact printer name Windows sometimes doesn't work. IE;
Linux -> HP940C
Windows -> HP generic inkjet

edit;
Also, check the /etc/samba/smb.conf for this.

load printers = yes
printcap name = cups
printing = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes

Then restart.

Should work.

There is a way to make this work correctly, I've nevered took the time to research it.