Re: [Samba] cann't get cups printrers visible to windows XP

2005-02-07 Thread Tony Earnshaw 
tj:

[...]

 So, how do I get the samba printer seen by Windows?

Did you say you were using Cups?
What does 'smbclient -L YOURNETBIOSNAME -U%' tell you?
What does Swat tell you?

F.ex. on this test rig, 'smbclient -L TRU -U%' gives me:

Epson   Printer   Epson Stylus
Epson_Samba Printer   Epson_Samba

for my printer. These are as I installed them for Cups. I haven't told
Samba (3.0.9 in this case) to use Cups, that's the default - and it looks
for Cups printers using libcups.so.2. How do I know (I'm relatively new to
Samba)? It says so in the docs.

Yes, I can see my printer in XP's Control Panel.

--Tonni

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[Samba] cann't get cups printrers visible to windows XP

2005-02-06 Thread tj 
I am having an awful time getting a cups printer on a linux system 
visible to windows XP. I have the printer, a brother hl1440 laser, 
working on Linux cups,named 1440. I then created another printer on it 
called raw-1440 and specified raw driver so teh Windows XP driver would 
be used. Here is my smb.conf entries:
load printers = yes
printcap name = cups
printing = cups

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
and then I restart samba.
I then go to the windows system and to install network printer and 
browse for printer. The workgroup and the samba running Linux system are 
listed but no printers.

Where the hell is my printer?
the samba user guide states:
The printer drivers on the Windows clients may be installed in two 
functionally different ways:

   *
 Manually install the drivers locally on each client, one by one;
 this yields the old /LanMan/ style printing and uses a
 \\sambaserver\printershare type of connection.
   *
 Deposit and prepare the drivers (for later download) on the print
 server (Samba); this enables the clients to use /Point'n'Print/
 to get drivers semi-automatically installed the first time they
 access the printer; with this method NT/200x/XP clients use the
 /SPOOLSS/MS-RPC/ type printing calls.
The second method is recommended for use over the first.
I am trying to use the first and have no freaking idea what the old 
lanman style is.

Once again, linux documentation that assumes you already know everything.
So, how do I get the samba printer seen by Windows?
tj
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