samba - Sep 1999 - Printing...

Can anyone give me a hand with printing.  Does hosts.lpr need the ips of
the windows machines that I want to print from?  I am running Mandrake 6.0
on a P-166.  The P-166 has the printer attached to it.  It can print just
fine and another linux box can also print just fine over the network.  My
Windows box sees the printer and installs it just fine.  The test page
however never prints.  No error messages on either side.  Any ideas?

I am using Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to get an HP LaserJet 4 Plus to become 
a shared printer so networked Windows PCs can print to it. I have Samba 
working fine for sharing files with Windows PCs and I have begun wading 
through the Samba documentation to enable printing and I have come up with an 
smb.conf entry that looks like this:

[HP4Plus]
        guest ok = yes
        comment = Brad's HP Laser
        printable = yes
        writable = yes
        path = /var/spool/samba

Testparm says all is OK but my Win2K PC still can't see it, so do I need to
do
anything else? I know that there are GUI tools available, but I have to do 
this on a couple of different version Red Hat servers that don't have X 
installed, so I would like to be able to do it manually if I can. The Samba 
docs are pretty heavy going for me so any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,
Brad

Yes, it can print OK. But I can't even connect to the Samba printer share
with
Win2K.

Regards,
Brad

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 20:08, you wrote:
> Can your linux box print to it? if linux can then so can samba, if not then
> samba can't
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> I am using Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to get an HP LaserJet 4 Plus to
> become
> a shared printer so networked Windows PCs can print to it. I have Samba
> working fine for sharing files with Windows PCs and I have begun wading
> through the Samba documentation to enable printing and I have come up with
> an
> smb.conf entry that looks like this:
>
> [HP4Plus]
>         guest ok = yes
>         comment = Brad's HP Laser
>         printable = yes
>         writable = yes
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>
> Testparm says all is OK but my Win2K PC still can't see it, so do I
need to
> do
> anything else? I know that there are GUI tools available, but I have to do
> this on a couple of different version Red Hat servers that don't have X
> installed, so I would like to be able to do it manually if I can. The Samba
>
> docs are pretty heavy going for me so any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Brad