Windows Printer Sharing

[pedrorolo]

pedrorolo Wrote: 
> i'm having that same problem,.... i even decided that i'd configure my
> printer withouth the gnome cups manager -> this little program is a
> shit in terms of usability, no examples, no help no nothing this should
> be reported as a usability bug.
> 
> so, i tried to configure my cupsd with the web interface at
> http://localhost:631/ 
> i couldn't manage to authenticate i tryed with no password, with root,
> and with my user.... So, i edited my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf fle in order
> to require no authentication to administer cupsd ... finaly i could
> register a printer but i got that stupid error: 
> 
> "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60
> seconds...foomatic-rip version $Revision: 3.43.2.5 $ running"
> 
> my programs are all up-to-date... i can't understand what's goin on...


ok ,, u ppl can use the gnome-cups-manager-tool to make this work.
There, there is one place where u'r asked to enter a username and a
password: This is the authentication of yr windows computer. I did this
and it begun workin.


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pedrorolo