[cups.general] remote samba printer

[Herman Viaene]

drew at technteach.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a printer on a Fedora FC4 box.
> 
> So far I have tried two techniques for setting it up for remote
> access from another FC4 box.  If I use the web based tool at
> localhost:631 I can't set the samba password and things fail
> because of authentication failures.  If use printconf on the
> remote box I can set the password, but I can't specify the
> .ppd file for the printer.
> 
> I thought I struggled with this problem in the past and
> managed to get things working by setting it up with on
> tool and adjusting it with the other.
> 
> But I can't reproduce the solution.  If I fix the password
> I break the .ppd, if I fix the .ppd I break the password.
> I need the .ppd to do double sided printing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew

I don't use Fedora, I have Mandriva, but it cann't be that different.
If you have two Fedora boxes, you have no need whatsoever for Samba. Samba
is for interworking with Windows.
You should be able to use the CUPS administration tool to define a remote
printer. Condition is of course that your local network is OK, you have the
same users on both machines and your users, also on the remote machine are
members of the lp-group.

Herman Viaene