Re: Win2k, Samba, cups and printers
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0400, Ryan Hagan wrote:
| Greetings,
|
| I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing
| through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having.
|
| Here's the scenario: I've installed my Epson Stylus Color 880 using
| CUPS. I can print fine from the linux box. When I setup the printer in
| Samba, I can SEE the printer and from my Windows 2000 Pro SP1 box, I can
| connect the printer. HOWEVER, when I open up the Printer area in Win2k and
| click on the network printer, I get the error message "access denied,
| unable to connect." Also, the "path" that is defined in the print areas is
| chmod'ed to 777.
I recently managed to get my parallel port printer shared via
samba+cups.
In addition to ensuring that the spool directory exists, make the
following changes and see if it helps :
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< printing = bsd
< printcap name = /etc/printcap.cups
---
> printing = cups
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< writable = no
---
> writable = yes
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< [EpsonInk]
< comment = Epson Stylus Color 880
< path = /var/spool/cups/tmp/
< writable = yes
< printable = yes
< printer name = EpsonInk
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