Samba printer sharing; making the printer visible toWindows...

[neil woolford]

This thread is a restart from a while back, partly because I'm still
looking at the problem and partly because a forum poster (maxwellcom)
wondered if I had had any success.

Simply, my laptop running Windows 98SE can't see the printer on my
Ubuntu desktop.  It has no trouble with printers served to it by a
Windows 2000 machine at work, and the printer is automatically available
if I run Ubuntu on the laptop.

Printing gurus are very welcome to offer pointers.  Maybe there is a
Samba/Cups/networking list that might be a better place to ask?


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:47 +0000, neil woolford wrote
> 
> There does seem to be a command 'cupsaddsmb' which is supposed to export
> cups printers to samba.  I haven't got it to do anything yet :(

Well, I've now started to get error messages.  Basically it can't
complete its tasks (adding printer information and drivers for Samba to
use afaik) because of user authentification/login problems.
> 
> I suspect that Samba isn't announcing the printer, and that Ubuntu on
> the laptop is finding it by a different method.

This looks increasingly likely, as the printer shows up a CUPS Printer
(IPP) under Ubuntu;  if I look for it as a Windows Printer (SMB) it
doesn't show up.  (Strictly speaking a 'ghost' of the printer being
shared off a Windows 2000 machine at work shows up, but *not* a share
from the current Ubuntu machine which does share it under CUPS.) 
> > 

> 
> Maxwellcom (forum) wrote;
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would like to do the very same thing... did you ever figure out how?
> > 
> > maxwellcom
> 
> Answer;  not yet.   As USB is hot pluggable and I don't print much at
> home I'm currently putting up with crawling around swapping plugs if I
> need to print from Windows.
> 
> I do plan to have another look, but may just change the laptop over to
> Ubuntu only fairly soon anyway.
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
> 
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