Setting up network printer

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:51 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>> You probably have a default [printers] setting at smb.conf like this:
>>
>> [printers]
>>       comment = All Printers
>>       browseable = no
>>       path = /var/spool/samba
>>       printable = yes
>> ;     guest ok = yes
>> ;     read only = yes
>>       create mask = 0700
>>
>> so, no need to mess with Samba.
>>
>
> I did find the Samba config (very late last night) and got the printer
> enabled by making printers browsable in that.
>

Tony,

It won't do any harm, but I guess there's no need to change smb.conf
[printers] parameters. This "browsing" has nothing to do with the
ability of the other stations to detect an available printer.

Lucio

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