dwain wrote: > i'm not sure if i am doing this correctly. earlier last night when i > looked at samba shares it was blank. today i can see the two windows > machines and i can access the computer where the shared printers are and > they are not there. > > what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network > printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup > name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of > the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the > name of the network printer according to the share name on the host > machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left > those fields blank. > > when i clicked on the test button, i received the error message: your > network access is not properly configured or the print server is unknown > or unavailable. check the hostname of the print server or contact your > network administrator. > > what am i missing? what else do i need to set for proper network access?
Just went through this myself. The links you were sent are fine, but they do everything via the commandline. It should work fine from the GUI. You want to do the "Print via SMB Network Service" options. Then type in the workgroup and hostname (the Windows machine with the printer). Click Look Up and it should populate the drop down for the Remote Queue Name. But for me, it got the wrong name (maybe due to the '-' in it?). The "Test Remote SMB Access" button never did work for me. Click Next and give it a local name, description and location. Make sure the "Do Local Filtering" is checked, as SMB needs it. You probably don't want the Share Printer to be checked. Then click next and select the printer model. Then Next and you should be all set. You can finally do a Test printing from here too. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
