On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:03 -0700, Dave Sheckells wrote: > Hello - > I am trying to use Samba and Cups to serve a file share and a "raw" > printer to a Windows 98 client. I am using Gentoo Linux, kernel > 2.6.12, Samba 3.0.14a, and Cups 1.1.23. I can access the data share > from the Samba server, but the printer share does not show up when I > try to use it, even if I specifically type in the name of the share > (\\data_dog\win98_photosmart) it still doesn't work. > > I had this working with this laptop and a "practice" file server I > had, the hard drive died in that machine, so I've set up my new file > server and I can't get this to work. > > Before I had either of the file servers I had installed the printer > directly on this laptop. When I set up the "practice" file server I > was able to make it work by changing the port the printer used from > it's own usb to the printer share, \\data_dog\win98_photosmart (to > change the printer port in Win 98 you go to the detail tab of the > printer properties dialog box). > > I have been trying every different samba and cups option I could > google for the last week. Please look over my smb.conf and cupsd.conf > and tell me where I'm going wrong. > > data_dog ~ # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf > [global] > netbios name = data_dog > workgroup = sheckellfield > server string = samba %v on %L > security = user > encrypt passwords = yes > wins support = yes > local master = yes > os level = 128 > log level = 3 > log file = /var/log/samba.log > max log size = 50 > hosts allow = 192.168.0. > read only = no > printing = cups > printcap = cups > load printers = yes > > [data] > path = /srv/samba/data_share > comment = %S on %L > volume = data_share > create mask = 0660 > directory mask = 0770 > force create mode = 0660 > force directory mode = 0770 > > [win98_photosmart] > comment = HP Photosmart 7150 > printer = win98_photosmart > path = /var/spool/samba/win98_photosmart > browseable = yes > guest ok = yes > writable = no > printable = yes > printer admin = root, @wheel > use client driver = yes ---- maybe it's just me but I've had problems using the underscore in machine names and have resorted to only letters/numbers/hyphens
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