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Re: CUPS does not have samba support.



On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, igor@ta2000.dyndns.org wrote:
| I have cupsys  version 1.1.10-3 installed.
| Now, when I type: 
| debian:~# lpinfo -v
| network socket
| network http
| network ipp
| network lpd
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200
| 
| I think there is no samba support inside the cups server.
| Any ideas ? I have to use samba protocal to communicate with Win9X printer, 
| correct ?

Yes, but CUPS works great.  It handles samba by delegating the real
work to smbspool.  You need to install the 'smbclient' package too (it
owns /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb, which is what cups uses for printing
over samba)

HTH,
-D



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