[CS-FSLUG] Network printer sharing with Windows

[Tim Young]

The main issues are:

1) The printer needs to be in the printcap (so Linux knows of it)
2) Samba needs to be enabled
3) Samba needs to know to look at the printcap
4) You need correct access to the printer.  If the windows boxes can see 
anything on the Linux box, the correct permissions are there already.
5) The printer needs to be browsable (a samba config option)

Note:  You need to restart samba, or at least give it a HUP, when you 
tell it to do something with the printers.

Note2:   The simplest method for determining if your printers are 
visible to the network via samba, is through smbclient.
# smbclient -L [LinuxServerName]
This will list all the available shares.  If the printer does not show 
up, try:
# smbclient //LinuxServerName/PrinterName
If you can connect up to it, but cannot see it when you do the 
"smbclient -L" then the printer is not browsable.

Hope that helps some...

    - Tim Young

Nathan T. wrote:

>Hi everyone, we just got a laser printer on sale and we need to be
>able to get to it from all the computers at home. We have a network
>set up, but we need to get a Mandrake 9.1 box to share it over the
>network.
>
>I set the printer up in Mandrake using printerdrake, and told
>printerdrake that the printer should be shared on the network, but
>then it wasn't visible from the windows machines. I made shure the
>samba (smb) daemon was running and even went looking through the list
>of available Mandrake packages to see if I could find any solution but
>so far nothing.
>
>The printer works on Mandrake, but isn't visible across the network.
>Putting Linux on all the computers isn't an option since my sister
>refuses to use it, and some of my homework requires Windows specific
>software.
>
>PS. I have already searched TLDP, "printer sharing" didn't return any results.
>
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