Description of problem: My other PC can not use printer. smbd and cupsd are running. Printer is set to be shared in printers.conf. Attaching smb.conf. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.27-0.fc8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 267521 [details] Samba config
Does it work if you set: printing = cups ?
No. It only works if I set printing = cups AND name section with my printer's name not 'printers'. I.e [Deskjet_D4100_series].
Sorry, have you also set 'printcap name = cups' ?
No, should I? It works without this parameter if I set section name to printer's name. What does this parameter mean?
'printcap name = cups' tells samba to ask cups for the list of printers.
Making 'printcap name = cups' and uncommenting 'printing = cups' made my printer available through Samba. It was not available before.
Perhaps those options should be added to config by default. Almost everyone use cups for printing.
I should think so. If Fedora uses CUPS by default, which I think it does, then certainly it should configure Samba to use CUPS by default.
printcap name = cups does not work. Samba does not show any printers. In latest version (3.0.28-0.fc8) printer sharing does work at all. Directly specified printer is visible but not printable. I have printable = yes option.
Created attachment 300371 [details] Files and terminal session that demonstrate the problem
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