samba - Jun 2003 - Setting up a cups printer

I'm trying to set up a cups printer but I don't know much about printing
in
linux and am a bit confused. I've installed a printer in cups using the web 
interface and it works fine. All the tutorials I've read though refer to 
/var/spool/lpd/lp but on my system this doesn't exist. I'm guessing this
is
because I'm not using lpd, I'm using cups. There are a few files in 
/var/spool/cups but they're c00001 to c00005. Can someone shed some light on
my problem? My [printer] section on smb.conf currently looks like this...

[printer]
        browseable = yes
        path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
        read only = yes
        printable = yes
        guest ok = yes

Please help,

Darrell

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> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:59:57 +0100
> From: Darrell Blake <darrell@dunmanifestin.co.uk>
> Subject: [Samba] Setting up a cups printer
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> I'm trying to set up a cups printer but I don't know much about
printing in
> linux and am a bit confused.
Here is the document you are looking for:

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/

(PDF and HTML).
> I've installed a printer in cups using the web 
> interface and it works fine. All the tutorials I've read though refer
to
> /var/spool/lpd/lp
You've read the wrong tutorials for your case....  ;-)
> but on my system this doesn't exist. I'm guessing this is 
> because I'm not using lpd, I'm using cups. There are a few files in
> /var/spool/cups but they're c00001 to c00005. Can someone shed some
light on
> my problem? My [printer] section on smb.conf currently looks like this...
> 
> [printer]
>         browseable = yes
>         path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
Don't use the same spool dir for Samba as you use for the printing
daemon! (since CUPS uses /var/spool/cups/ yours is OK, but I'd suggest
to use "telling" names....)
>         read only = yes
>         printable = yes
>         guest ok = yes
> 
> Please help,
> 
Probably all that is missing is the "load printers = yes" (in the
[global] section. Then your printer should at least be "visible".
Installing a driver for the Win clients then is the next step...
(See link above).
> Darrell
Cheers,
Kurt

Darrell Blake ?rta:
>I'm trying to set up a cups printer but I don't know much about
printing in
>linux and am a bit confused. I've installed a printer in cups using the
web
>interface and it works fine. All the tutorials I've read though refer to
>/var/spool/lpd/lp but on my system this doesn't exist. I'm guessing
this is
>because I'm not using lpd, I'm using cups. There are a few files in 
>/var/spool/cups but they're c00001 to c00005. Can someone shed some
light on
>my problem? My [printer] section on smb.conf currently looks like this...
>
>[printer]
>        browseable = yes
>        path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
>        read only = yes
>        printable = yes
>        guest ok = yes
>
>Please help,
>
>Darrell
>
>  
>
For the begining you should check, that your samba is built with cups 
suport, or not, if yes, all you have to do is to specify printing=cups, 
under global, the rest is optional

Good Luck

Geza Gemes