On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 11:05, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 20 May 2003 10:33:17 -0700 Tom Nielsen
wrote: Our printer is connected to my wife's win98 laptop (it's an 1170Cxi). I shared her system and her printer. When I go into LinNeighborhood, I can see her computer, C drive and printer, but I cannot connect to it.
I've tried using KDE and Yast (Cups) to connect to it, but can't. Do I need to mount her drive (no! not like that!)?
1. It doesn't detect it 2. I try to configure it and use SMB Printing, I enter the IP, it (yast2) locates the queue, but when I test the remote SMB access I get:
There was a problem.
You specified an invalid queue name on the printer server, the printer server does not accept print jobs, or the queue on the printer server doesnot accept print jobs.
Session request to 192.168.2.9 failed (called name not present) I have a similar configuration (except my wife is using Windows ME. For political reasons I have the printer attached to her system. Make sure you have Samba (eg. smbd and nmbd) running. Here are some of the relevant lines in /etc/samba/smb.conf:
# CUPS is the current SuSE Linux default printing system. printing = CUPS printcap name = CUPS
# This is not really relevant, but it does not hurt. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp # Make printers accessible without user authentication. ; guest ok = yes printable = yes create mask = 0600 browseable = no
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