I am trying to share my HP deskjet712 printer with my MAC OSX and Windows 2000Pro boxes. The printer is directly connected to my 8.2 box running CUPS and Samba. I just can't seem to get it to work. I get Access denied, unable to connect errors from the 2000Pro machines and the Mac reports that it is trying to connect and then times out. Could somebody that has a similiar environment include their smb.conf so that I can at least get a starting reference point. My family is beating me up because they can't print.

Ugh, I've gone through that pain. Samba + CUPS seems like it should be easy, but it rarely is. I had more trouble sharing a printer connected to a Linux box than with sharing a printer on a Windows box. Couple things to consider: What version of cups/samba? RPM install or from source? What does /etc/cups/printers.conf look like? Did you do ln -s `which smbspool` /your/path/to/cups/backend/smb Did you run cupsaddsmb -a -v? What driver/PPD are you using for your printer? GIMP-Print? PPD from linuxprinting.org? Anything interesting in either samba or cups logs? Can the other computers share files fine? Here are the relevant portions of my smb.conf: [global] printcap = cups printcap name = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes printer admin = root [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes write list = root You might also want to consider joining the CUPS mailing list, they are generally pretty helpful. Josh