On Mon November 17 2008 1:36:37 am John Andersen wrote:

Richard Creighton wrote:

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Listmates,

I hope you can help me with sharing a printer with a Vista (yeah, I know LOL) machine. This is occuring both on Suse 10.3 and 11.0 - I can print from windows with no problem yet when I try to look at the print queue it says access denied. Looks like maybe I somehow have the queue set up as write only but I didn't intend to!

any ideas?

thanks

Its a little vague where the printer is attached. I presume to a linux machine?

You have to set up your user (the one you attach to the printer from vista with) as an administrator for that printer. You can do that with yast, or by pointing a web browser on your linux machine to localhost:631

From Steve: Refer to the message from John Andersen, he said: You have to set up your user (the one you attach to the printer from vista with) As an administrator for that printer.  You can do that with yast, or by Pointing a web browser on your Linux machine to localhost:631   I can't see where in either Yast or the CUPS web interface to do that but I think he is on the right track.  On a hunch, I created a user named root on my Windows machine and that user has no problem looking at the queue! Please format this info as you see fit and drop it onto the list and see what comes of it... </end> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon November 17 2008 10:37:18 am Kai Ponte wrote:

On Sunday 16 November 2008 09:02:13 pm Richard Creighton wrote:

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Listmates,

I hope you can help me with sharing a printer with a Vista (yeah, I know LOL) machine. This is occuring both on Suse 10.3 and 11.0 - I can print from windows with no problem yet when I try to look at the print queue it says access denied.

Look at the print queue from within windows?

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Looks like maybe I somehow have the queue set up as write only but I didn't intend to!

Not sure what you mean.

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any ideas?

Let us know a little more - I have printers setup on Win2K and Vista shared to my openSUSE workstations.

This page had some great info to help me setup:

http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html

Basically, on the Wintendo side, you setup a shared printer, enable unix printing support, open port 631 in YaST, make sure cups has a password (lppasswd), and setup your printer either via samba or lpd.

I've found using lpd works better for me you end up with a printer attached to an address like:

lpd://ip.address.of.wintendo/PrinterQueue

-- kai kai, and John,

Thanks for the replies. I have forwarded your replies to my friend and former partner in QuickBBS. He is the one with the Vista laptop and SuSE Linux servers. As I personally do not and will not have or use Win-tindough, I had to plead ignorance (because it is true) of Samba vs Vista configuration, especially when printers are involved. Steve has a couple of SuSE machines running 10.3 upon which he runs a website (and other servers) for a mutual friend. He occasionally taps me on the shoulder when he runs into a Linux question (he is too trusting, and I am too stupid after my stroke) and somehow, sometimes I actually still am able to help him. This time, my 'help' was to let him sit down at my SuSE machine and pen the original question on this subject. To answer some of the questions the responses have asked, I'll try and clarify what I know about his setup. Three machines are involved, two are Linux SuSE 10.3 and one Vista Laptop. The printer is set up on one of the SuSE boxes and prints like a network printer would for all 3 machines. When using his Vista laptop, he can print to the Linux queue and gets whatever document(s) printed just fine regardless. However, when using the Vista laptop, occasionally wireless, and occasionally direct, he finds it valuable to check the print queue, ostensibly to ensure the document printed and is done. I guess he is as lazy as I am and doesn't want to physically walk/drive to the printer to see if the print job is done or had a problem, so, he looks at the print queue on the Vista box but gets the 'i am not gonna talk to you and won't show you the queue because you didn't pay me enough money before I retired' message displayed on his laptop. I hope this amplifies the original message. I will forward all replies to him and try to answer any additional questions you might have. As he and I live in different (albeit relatively close) cities, unfortunatly we only get to communicate via E-mail all too often. I know he appreciates any help you guys might come up with including the responses I have already forwarded to him. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org