trying to install Canon s900 printer but canon printer monitor on win PC is not working saying there's no bidirectional connection between win
That is probably the Canon app not wanting to work with a networked printer. Those style apps are designed to work on a local machine with a local printer. You could try to create a virtual LPR port and set the server to print in raw mode, but that probably won't get you over the hump.
So, am i right that it is impossible to use modern printers via samba?
No, you're wrong. It may be very difficult or impossible to use printers whose driver writers expect that printer to be attached to USB or parallel ports and cannot function over the network, but this will only hinder the advanced properties, perhaps such as ink sensing and what not. Pull virtually any network aware printer off of the shelf today, install the drivers on your server and client and you'll be just fine. Naturally this works better if the printer talks PostScript or any open printing language, but even without, many companies make valid unix drivers for network printers.
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