On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:07:44PM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com] > > > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick > > tip for getting > > > Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on > > the LAN? I've > > > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared- > > Printing.html > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari > > ng_with_windows.html > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 > > I followed the steps in > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_window > s.html to the letter and it didn't work. > > Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two > lines I needed to add; > > Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. > > and do > > chmod 777 /home/smbprint > > and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my > Debian server ... yeah !!! a couple things to note here: 1. I googled "debian windows print samba" and got those, and many other great hits, on the first page. You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. There are *vast* quantities of really good linux info on the web, its just a matter of learning the right search terminology. Also, www.debian-administration.org is a great site and has a local search function as well. I use it often. 2. Many debian oriented guides are geared towards "sarge". With "etch" out, we should see those starting to update, but it will be a while. you'll have to make various translations as you go along. A
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