Q: how to share printer in hardy?

[D. R. Evans]

Willy K. Hamra said the following at 09/02/2008 02:03 PM :

> 
> i was still working on recovering my /sharedstuff diectory when i
> remembered it contained my printer drivers to be shared, a quick google
> search for, sharedstuff samba cups, gave the page i originally used to
> set up my printer, there you go
> 
> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3621876
> 
> 

Man! Is that the only way to share a printer? That, frankly, is ridiculous.

I was sure that when I started messing with hand-editing smb.conf I was not
doing the right thing... but now it turns out that not only should I be
editing smb.conf, but I also need to find and hand-edit a CUPS
configuration file as well :-(

I've been sharing printers under Mandrake/Mandriva for years, and I don't
recall ever having to edit a file manually.

And now, FWIW, I still haven't been able to get it to work; Windows still
keeps telling me that it can't connect. Almost certainly it's some kind of
authentication error... but I can't find any way to tell if it's samba or
cups that is complaining. The cups log file unhelpfully says that the jobs
are received and printed just fine.

My smb.conf file is rather complex (much more so than the examples on the
pages to which you've pointed me), so I imagine that that's where the
problem is. So I guess I'll keep ploughing on until I find the right
combination of entries. This is very frustrating, though. One shouldn't
have to spend hours of tinkering with configuration files just to put a
printer on a network.

  Doc

PS Thank you, anyway. I'm frustrated at Kubuntu, not you.

PPS I waited a while to respond, in the hope that someone would say, "Oh,
no; you don't have to do all that; it's easy: just click here and here".

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