[cups.general] acces denied windows printer

[rance at frontiernet.net]

Quoting David Hlacik <david at hlacik.eu>:

> Hi , i have a local raw printer configured on CentOS 5.1
> I am using samba to connect printer remotely from Windows Vista.
> The think is that Vista is unable to recieve printer status from   
> server, but  i am able to print on that printer from Vista)
> Here i am posting cups configuration (smb configuration is unchanged  
>  and leaved by default) i am loging in as user which account is   
> created on server.
> Is there any better way to use windows - smb - cups than having a   
> printer on server in raw mode? I am using cups-hal which autocreated  
>  a printer for my. I can use it from Linux, i can print a test page   
> using cups - but i cannot print on it from Windows.
>
> Thanks in advance!

Does Windows Vista have "Print Services for Unix" that you can install?

This will create an ipp port on the windows box that can connect to  
any shared printer on the vista box.

In my experience this is a much more reliable way to get cups to print  
to a windows hosted printer than trying to log in to the windows box  
with a smb client.