----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Tinsley"
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Shareing printers from a SuSE 10.1 system Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:34:00 -0700 I am sure this has been asked before but I am looking for a simple HowTo on this. I've done this on other distros but can't seem to find the magic in SuSE to make it work. I have a local printer configured on SuSE 10.1 OSS which I would like to share out to another Linux box as well as a Windows computer on my home network. I have looked at Novell's documentation on this including CUPS in a Nutshell and the Cool Solutions article on Share Files and Printers with Samba. None of this even closely resembles what I am seeing in configuring Samba and CUPS on SuSE 10.1 OSS, especially the smb.conf file. One shouldn't need samba as CUPS is a server that can support IPP printing but I had read that Samba was needed for all this to work on SuSE 10.1 OSS.
Some guidance please.
Updating this from earlier today. I have the printer shared via samba and have been able to connnect to it from a Ubuntu Dapper box in my lab and it works great. However, if I try to connect to the same shared printer from WindowsXP, I can see and connect to the printer but the drivers don't automatically download (I have ran cupsaddsmb and have checked the drivers folder on the SuSE system) and after finishing installing the printer, the message is access denied, unable to connect; checking that further, I find that no port is defined for the printer to print to and without a port definition, no connection can be made. I enabled SWAT on the SuSE 10.1 system and looked at the settings, everything looks good to go. I found another document that discusses using the KDE's Print Server > Configure Server where it is implied that you can configure IPP printing directly to the CUPS server but this not a SuSE native tool and I don't use the KDE desktop. Done quite a bit of research here but still no definitive solution. Still looking for some help on this. Thanks. Clint -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com