On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:14:55PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000 | machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have
I haven't tried with a win2k client, but I have CUPS/samba working with win[95,98,me] clients. | shared drives. I changed the smb.conf file | | printing = cups Yes. | printcap name = lpstat (which is not in docs) Not necessary -- samba will use CUPS config and doesn't need any printcap at all. | and when I go to install printer on Win2000 | it finds the printer but once I have the | printer installed on Win2000 it says | "Access denied, cannot connect". How can I | fix this? You have a "[printers]" section, right? That section should have a path, such as /tmp. It needs to be writable by the user that samba runs as (everyone is simplest). This directory is used just to stash the data the win box sends as a file, then it runs 'lpr' on it to queue it. If this directory isn't writable by samba then the client complains about not being able to send the data to the "printer". HTH, -D
