Re: Printing question - samba stuff
hi ya
> Alan & Kerry Shrimpton(loverslane.poodles@ihug.co.nz) is reported to have said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my
> > windows machine.
> >
> > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux
> > machine. I have it connected to my windows machine.
> <--snip-->
> >
> > That is my situation and now to my real question.
> >
> > 1. How the heck do I see my windows machine on my Linux machine?
> > 2. How do I get my Linux machine to print using my printer hardware
> > connected to my windows machine?
>
> samba
-- am gonna assume your pritner is working on the linux side...
both both text and postscript stuff prints fine...
to configure samba...
/etc/samba/smb.conf
... make sure you have these types of stanza ...
# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
printable = yes
print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r %s ; rm %s
printer = xerox
printing = BSD
read only = yes
#
# tom's linux-based Home directories that is accessible on WinXX
#
[tom]
comment = Tom's Win98 Backup
;
; caution: Requires chmod 777 /opt/home/bklein
path = /opt/home/bklein
;
; need to be browsable for network neighborhood and smbclient -U# -L
localhost
browseable = yes
; public = no
writable = yes
valid users = tom
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765
restart samba...
# Check this config file
# ----------------------
# testparm
# testprns xerox /etc/printcap
#
# smbclient -U% -L localhost
# nmblookup WORKGROUP#1B
Make sure that you run smbpasswd... if the WinXX is to be able to print
to the printer connected to the linux box
linux# cd /etc/samba ; smbpasswd -a tom
-- and dont forget to fix lots-o-security issues in the samba config file
after it starts to work..
- limit access to only inside your corp lan... and not the outsideworld
c ya
alvin
> >
> >
> > No doubt I need to install some packages but what ones?
> apt-cache show samba - should get you started. You should have an smb
> filesystem enabled in your kernel as well
> CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
> CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y
> CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp437"
> CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y
>
> Another one to check is
> apt-cache show xsmbrowser
>
> :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
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