I had the same problem with 3.0.14a, it seems that clients don't like
long names or names with certain characters in them. The printer names
were made by the gnome-cups-add gui tool and went something like
Manufacturer-Model-Postscript-(recomended), without an option to change
the name. Windoze boxen were unable to see the printers as were
gnome-cups-add's on other linux boxen. I edited printers.conf and made
the names short and alphanumeric and all the affected clients became
able to see the printers. As far as I remember they still didn't show up
in an smbclient -L, but that doesn't matter to me as printing works just
fine now. HTH
On O , 2006-03-07 at 20:18 +0100, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running samba 3.0.21c (Sernet packages on Debian Sarge) and trying
> to automatically share cups printers via "load printers = Yes"
>
> - Printing seems to work if you install the printers on the client by
>calling con2prt.exe, but
> - the printers do not appear as shares when browsing the network
>neighbourhood or calling "net view \\servername" on the client.
> - They do appear, if I include an explicit section for each printer
>in smb.conf
>
> Bug or feature?
>
> My configuration options:
> [global]
>...
>printcap name = cups
>cups server = localhost
>printing = CUPS
>load printers = Yes
>...
> [printers]
>comment = SMB print spool
>path = /var/spool/samba
>guest ok = yes
>printable = yes
>browseable= yes
>use client driver = no
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Wolfgang Ratzka
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