[vox-tech] sharing a printer with samba

[Alex Mandel]

Henry House wrote:
> I've never used samba before (happily i have no windows machines of my own).
> However, i would like to share a printer so that my housemate can use it. I
> can't get it to work and i suspect an access-control, problem. As far as I can
> tell the smb server is not accepting jobs from the client. I've configured
> smb.conf like so:
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = home
> netbios name = Samba
> encrypt passwords = true
> printing = bsd
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> load printers = yes
> log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
> lock directory = /var/lock/samba
> 
> [xerox]
> comment = Xerox laser printer --- use this one
> path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
> printer name = lp
> writable = yes
> public = yes
> printable = yes
> print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s
> 
> The server is running Ubuntu Gutsy with lprng spooler. Local printing on
> the server works perfectly.
> 
> Here are the relevant log lines from a client (Ubuntu Gutsy with CUPS spooler):
> 
> E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:11 +0000] [Job 19] Unable to connect to CIFS host after (tried 3 times)
> E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:11 +0000] PID 22372 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb) stopped with status 1!
> E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:15 +0000] PID 22371 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 9!
> E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:15 +0000] PID 22371 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 9!
> 
> 
> 

I recommend that you setup cups instead, and open up port 631 internally 
on your network for that machine.
Way easier, you just change the cups config to accept jobs on your 
particular subnet.
the print line for windows machine is then 
ipp://ipaddress:631/printers/nameofprinter

Alex