[cups.general] Samba & cups: how exactly work together?

[Adrian Paul]

One other thing,

You can leave the cupsd.conf well alone. It pretty much works out of the box.

Adrian

> Toni wrote:
> > I've fight to exhaustion with the manuals, but I surrended my self. If
> > somebody can help me I would be gratefully.
> >
> > This is the layout:
> >
> > Linux Suse 9.0 as a Samba(2.2.8a) master, with Cups(1.1.19) master and a
> > printer Deskjet930 connected to a parallel port. Through a domestic LAN two
> > Windows clients: a W2k and a XP. I pretend the printer in the linux box to
> > be shared with clients.
> >
> > According to both manuals (samba and cups) less more than two settings in
> > smb.comf are needed to get the system work: "printing = cups" and "printcap
> > name = cups". In addition, of course, I've configured all the stuff
> > regarding nodes, names, path, etc.
> >
> > In short: with Samba server and Smbclient, I can see, and access, shares in
> > both directions: from linux server to windows machines and vice versa. I
> > can also print locally from linux box. But although I can see the printer
> > from Windows clients, I can't print. In one case (w2k) all seems works
> > smoothly, but print jobs never reachs the printer (they appear to be
> > scheduled in the local queue, but then banish without any sign in the
> > server). In the other case (XP) I get directly this message error: "unable
> > to connect to Print1. You are not allowed...".
> >
> > The question I want to put is: Witch are the settings one has to configure
> > in Cups configuration files?. Put in another words: where ends Cups and
> > begins Samba?.
> >
> > Then I tried configuring in cupsd.conf this directives:
> >
> > User lp
> > Group lp
> > RunAsUser Yes
> >
> > Port 631
> >
> > Browsing On
> > BrowseAddress 192.168.1.255
> > <Location />
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > Deny From All
> > Allow From 127.0.0.1
> > Allow From 127.0.0.2
> > Allow From @LOCAL
> > </Location>
> >
> > <Location /printers>
> > Deny From All
> > Allow From 192.168.1.*
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > </Location>
> >
> > But things didn't seems to improve (?).
> >
> > One thing more (sorry for the extension) in both Windows boxes HP
> > Windows-drivers are installed for as remote printers.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Toni
> > (Barcelona)
> >
>