Setting up network printer

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to set up a network printer on my Netbook.  The printer is
> attached to my desktop PC.  The printing dialogue on the Netbook will
> not find it either as a network printer or as a Samba printer.
>
> On the Desktop PC, when I look at the printer's properties, I have it
> Shared under State, on the Policies tab, but it also says 'Not published
> - See server settings', and I think this is why I cannot see it from the
> Netbook.
>
> But I don't know what 'server setting' I need to look at.  Can anyone
> enlighten me?

On the Desktop check if

System / Administration / Printing / Server / "Publish shared printers
connected to this system"

is enabled. That's it. (Cups print server)

You probably have a default [printers] setting at smb.conf like this:

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	browseable = no
	path = /var/spool/samba
	printable = yes
;	guest ok = yes
;	read only = yes
	create mask = 0700

so, no need to mess with Samba.

-- 
Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux