I have recently installed 10.0 and was wanting to share my printer with the Mac OS X laptop on the network. I saw the new Samba configurator in YAST and thought that should provide an easy way to get the printer shared. Indeed, opening it suggested that the printer should now be shared by default. Checking the runlevel editor, however, showed that smb wasn't running, so I started it from there. Still no joy, however. Can anyone suggest how to share a printer from a SUSE 10 box over the LAN? The network itself is fine - the two boxes can ping one another without issue - but the OS X laptop doesn't see any printers in its "Windows printer" config dialog. TiA John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:36 +0000, John Pettigrew wrote:
I have recently installed 10.0 and was wanting to share my printer with the Mac OS X laptop on the network. I saw the new Samba configurator in YAST and thought that should provide an easy way to get the printer shared. Indeed, opening it suggested that the printer should now be shared by default. Checking the runlevel editor, however, showed that smb wasn't running, so I started it from there. Still no joy, however.
Can anyone suggest how to share a printer from a SUSE 10 box over the LAN? The network itself is fine - the two boxes can ping one another without issue - but the OS X laptop doesn't see any printers in its "Windows printer" config dialog.
I believe it is the nmb part that needs to be running. Make sure that is running as well. Once it is running any configured printers should should show up automagically. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006 14:36, John Pettigrew wrote:
I have recently installed 10.0 and was wanting to share my printer with the Mac OS X laptop on the network.
Can anyone suggest how to share a printer from a SUSE 10 box over the LAN?
John, I just went through this on my home network, as we just bought an Intel iMac. It's a mess, unfortunately... What I have learned so far is that the 10.4.5 OS update borked a number working Mac2Win and Mac2Linux Samba sharing. At home I have a USB printer connected to the iMac that I wanted to share out. It's still not working, even after tweaking the Samba installation on the iMac (we do a lot of Samba installs; we are not Samba newbies). On the SuSE box, turn off the firewall (for the moment) and make sure running smbclient produces no errors. Here's my output; the key is to make sure the print$ share is visible. lmstone@shiraz:~> smbclient -Llocalhost -U% Domain=[RNOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.21b-4.1.10-SUSE-SL10.0] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.21b-4.1.10-SUSE-SL10.0) IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.21b-4.1.10-SUSE-SL10.0) quicken Disk Quicken Data Files quickbooks Disk For QuickBooks Files vmware Disk VMware Files print$ Disk Printer Drivers Domain=[RNOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.21b-4.1.10-SUSE-SL10.0] Server Comment --------- ------- PINOT Pinot Running Samba 3.0.21a-1.1.0-SUSE. SHIRAZ Samba 3.0.21b-4.1.10-SUSE-SL10.0 VIOGNIER Samba 3.0.21a-1.1.0-SUSE Workgroup Master --------- ------- RNOME VIOGNIER If you get output like the above, then you know Samba on your SuSE box is working OK; the problem is then either on the Mac side or with the connectivity between them. I'd then suggest the following on the Mac: 1. Make sure the machine name has no spaces in it. 2. Turn the Mac firewall off (for the moment). 3. Open up a command prompt and run smbclient as above, substituting the IP address of the SuSE box for "localhost" => Can Samba on the Mac box see the SuSE box? 4. If no joy, some Mac users report success changing the workgroup name in smb.conf on the Mac to match that on the target box, and to specify a short NetBIOS name as well. 5. If no joy still, change the Samba debug level to 10 on the Mac box and post the errors on the Samba mailing list. Of course, if you have an AppleCare contract, you can just call Apple (which is what I am about to do...) Good luck! Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business" 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com This email was sent from Reliable Networks of Maine LLC. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you suspect that you were not intended to receive it, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Thank you.
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