> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 7, 2007 2:50 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I setup printer? > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:07:44PM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > > That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick > > > tip for getting > > > > Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on > > > the LAN? I've > > > > > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared- > > > Printing.html > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari > > > ng_with_windows.html > > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 > > > > > I followed the steps in > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_window > s.html to the letter and it didn't work. > > Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two > lines I needed to add; > > Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. > > and do > > chmod 777 /home/smbprint > > and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my > Debian server ... yeah !!!
a couple things to note here: 1. I googled "debian windows print samba" and got those, and many other great hits, on the first page. You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. There are *vast* quantities of really good linux info on the web, its just a matter of learning the right search terminology. Also, www.debian-administration.org is a great site and has a local search function as well. I use it often. 2. Many debian oriented guides are geared towards "sarge". With "etch" out, we should see those starting to update, but it will be a while. you'll have to make various translations as you go along. Thanks for the tips Andrew ... but with all due respect ... IMHO ... basic stuff like sharing a printer on a small LAN SHOULDN'T be so complex nor require searching the WWW and the possible risks of getting bad information and trashing your system! I started my task of add this printer by following some advice from this list ... printconf ... then when that didn't work found the www.linux.org site which also gave some steps that should have worked, but because of not managing to get ANY software to work on my system for many months and having found that Debian documents found on the Internet do not always work as described, thought I'd better ask which of the steps identified NEED to be done. Turns out the answer was none of the above, new tip, for a browser interface to CUPS. Don't get me wrong, this is great, but hopefully you can appreciate how this might be frustrating and how I might not necessarily agree with your suggestion that I would be "well served to learn to" Google better ... :O) I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was shown in the document, will I be missing some functionality that is put in by default that I might need down the road when I try and install some other software package and thus spend hours running around in circles trying to find some document some place that mentions that I need one of those lines that are now gone. Mine was a pure clean Etch install (only a couple of days old) and yet needed to cobble together a solution from two separate documents, both of which purported to HAVE the answer. Perhaps there should be an "official" ... Doing Basic Stuff in Debian ... icon on the default desktop that gets installed with Debian ... yes, there can be lots of discussion about what constitutes "basic stuff", but adding a printer and sharing it across a LAN. IMHO, should have been as simple as checking a box labelled "Share this Printer ?" "Share with Windows computers Yes/No? "Do you want a password Yes/No?, etc and then have ALL the necessary changes made to the various config files. Once you know what to do it isn't difficult, but of course it is knowing what to do that is always the challenge isn't it? It is kinda like wandering around in Zelda trying to figure out what combination of hidden buttons to hit to un-lock the next room in the adventure ... only with Zelda the graphics are better ... :O) My two cents for what they are worth, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]