From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: CUPS Problems Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:07:49 -0700 Message-ID: <45036565.2090908@comarre.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Sandra McGrew wrote: > I'm not certain that I know how to explain this well enough so that someone > will be able to help me, but I will try... > I can't get cups to work... I've got a Lexmark Z611 printer... and it is > attached via usb to a Windows XP Home computer... > So, I think that I need to use SMB with this... but, am not certain how to > do it.. I have SMB4K installed and started, it shows no mounted shares... > There is an SMB folder in each person's directory (home)... including > (root)... I see the share on the Windows XP Home computer and I see a > folder named SMB4K -> MOMO1 -> All Users > -> D (CD-ROM Drive) > -> print$ (Not certain what this is for or what it does???) > > One the Windows XP Home machine, I can see the Debian (Sarge) computer.. in > the Windows Explorer window it says, Mf.com -> debian1 server (Samba > 3.0.14a-Debian)(Debian1) > However, when I click on it to get in, it brings up a connectoid dialog > box... Connecting to Debian1... > User name: Mf.com\username ( I think that's right???) > Password: Password > However, it tells me that I have to put it into a format like this; > Examples: > User Name > username@domain > DOMAIN\username > That's the SAMBA problem, that I can't figure out... > I'm not certain, but I believe that if I could get SAMBA working right, then > the CUPS problem might be a little easier... > I would appreciate any help that I can get... > Most sincereley, > Dan You have probably set up the Debian host to require authentication for SMB connections. You do this in /etc/samba/smb.conf . If your environment is sufficiently secure that you don't need this protection, the easy solution is to change the setting in this way: ; security = user security = share Then set up at least one public share to test that this will work. An example from my server is: [shared_video1] comment = edited video - first volume writable = yes locking = no path = /home/shared_video1 public = yes (You might want to change the above to writable=no). Then re-HUP or restart samba (e.g., as root enter "/etc/init.d/samba restart"). Even if you need to use authentication, I'd recommend this as a test step, to make sure all else is working right. Then add authentication back in. smb.conf has a section for authentication, but to help you with that, I'll need to see yours (it's probably a newer version than mine, and the format tends to change a bit). PS - I tried to reply to your earlier query too, but the list rejected my reply as SPAM. I don't know why. Seeing if this response gets through may be instructive in that regard. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs