From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 11:53:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22E237B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu (srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu [164.107.3.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5A4143E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: (qmail 19583 invoked by uid 506); 28 Oct 2002 20:00:53 -0000 Received: from mistry.7@osu.edu by srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu by uid 503 with qmail-scanner-1.14 ( Clear:. Processed in 0.018336 secs); 28 Oct 2002 20:00:53 -0000 Received: from rdrt-164-107-204-107.resnet.ohio-state.edu (HELO bigguy.am-productions.biz) (164.107.204.107) by srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu with SMTP; 28 Oct 2002 20:00:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Share printer with CUPS and samba Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:53:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210281453.00512.mistry.7@osu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've tried many times to get FreeBSD machine to share it's printer though= =20 samba with little success. The other day I was finally able to get the=20 printer visible from my 2000 box and was able to use that Add Printer Wiz= ard=20 to upload the drivers. The files copied just fine, but then my FreeBSD = box=20 just went crazy, lots of harddisk activity and then my /usr partition fil= led=20 up (1.2 GB free). -----info---- Printer: HP Deskjet 920C on the FreeBSD machine Samba is compiled with cups support. ----smb.conf-- [global] workgroup =3D WORKGROUP netbios name =3D MYCOMP encrypt passwords =3D Yes ;socket options =3D IPTOS_LOWDELAY ; print config printer admin =3D @ntadmin,root add printer command =3D yes load printers =3D yes printing =3D cups printcap name =3D cups [my_music] path =3D /usr/home/amistry/windows-share/jail/ftp/pub/my-music read only =3D yes guest ok =3D yes ; print config [printers] comment =3D All Printers path =3D /var/spool/samba browseable =3D yes public =3D yes guest ok =3D yes writable =3D no printable =3D yes printer admin =3D @ntadmin,root [print$] path =3D /usr/local/samba/printer guest ok =3D yes browseable =3D yes read only =3D yes write list =3D @ntadmin,root Thanks, --=20 Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message