Hello gurus! I have a Canon S750 printer connected to my Fedora box. I want to share the printer to my Windows- and other machines, but I can't manage to print anything. I can print locally in Fedora without problems and I can install the printer as network printer on my Windows PC. But when I try to print from my Windows PC, nothing happens. The Canon is installed on Fedora using a BJC8200-driver (S600 works as well). When installing it on the Windows PC I have tried S750-, BJC8200- and S600-drivers. None of them working. Could anyone please provide me with the necessary lines of code in the smb.conf file. Regards VES

I made this HOWTO a while back when I ran into similar issues. The problem is not on samba.conf. You need to set up a CUPS. That is, if you want to connect a Windows host to a Linux host [linux is the one with the printer attached to it]. Then you tweak around smb.conf. CUPS linux print server (redhat 9.0, kernel 2.4.22) http://127.0.0.1:631/admin scenario: printer attached to linux. objective: windows xp print to it 1). Get the package. Rpm or source. www.cups.org 2.) Install the cups package by doing: # ./configure; make; make install. 3.) Restart service. You should see cups start with output "Cups scheduler started". /sbin/service cups start | stop 3.) Go to Linuxprinting.org. On the left side navigation bar, select The Database-> Printer Listings. Select your make/model printer, then click on the Show button. The next page will give you the option to generate a ppd file for your printer. Click on download PPD and save the file to /usr/share/cups/model. The file should be in a model.ppd format, if not, then rename it to my_printer.ppd. 4.) Restart cups by doing /sbin/service cups restart. 5.) http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/ and download the latest foomatic-filters.tar.gz (version 3.0 as of this writing). Then do the following: # tar -xzf foomatic-filters-3.0.0.tar.gz # ./configure # make # cp foomatic-rip /usr/lib/cups/filter/ 6) in Red Hat, I went to #printconf-gui, click on Action, then Sharing...Selected what I wanted. Allow all, or specific IP. ****OR*** Open your favorite browser and point it to http://localhost:631 Under Administrative Tasks, add your printer. Just follow the directions. 7.) modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf <Location /printers/deskjet940c> #Order Allow,Deny //comment added #Deny From All //comment added Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.210.85.* //added this line #AuthType None //comment added Allow from All </Location> <Location /> #Order Deny,Allow //comment added #Deny From All //comment added Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.210.85.* //added this line </Location> Browsing On BrowseProtocols cups #BrowseOrder Deny,Allow //comment added BrowseAllow from @LOCAL #BrowseAddress 192.210.85.255 //comment added 9)Modify smb.conf ensure the following is set: printing = cups printcap name = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes #added myself printing = cups public = yes printer name = deskjet940c 10.modfiy the following cups files: /etc/cups/mime.convs -uncomment the line: application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw /etc/cups/mime.types -uncomment the line: application/octet-stream 11. /sbin/service cups stop | start 12/ sbin/service smb stop | start 13. For windows XP. add printer wizard, connect to:\\<ip linux server\deskjet940c, add drivers, and enjoy. Try http://<ip>/printers/deskjet940c but that requires you have ipp on windows.

Thank You randomx for the very comprehensive reply. I'll try it later this weekend. Regards V.E. Seeberg

It Works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you, randomx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards VES