Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

[David Blamire-Brown <david@blamire-brown.co.uk>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:13:09 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Mark Shields wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown <
> >
> > david@blamire-brown.co.uk> wrote:

> > > I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing
> > > working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to
> > > print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP
> > > on the XP laptop.

> >
> > It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer.
> > Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931
> >
> > These lines:
> >
> > public = yes
> > guest ok = yes
> >
> > Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them.
> 
> You will also want to configure cups.conf to listen not only to localhost, but 
> to also listen to the IP address of the XP box.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick
> 
Thank you for the advice. 
cups.conf and smb.conf were already configured as per the guides. So that wasn't the problem. Setting security = share appears to have resolved the login issues. 
Guest access for printing in security = user seems to have the unfortunate side effect of Windows deciding it is already logged in to samba, making impossible to connect to the homes share without logging out to clear the cache of connections.
I can't tell whether my initial issues with not being able to print as guest were related to the default guest linux account (nobody) not being in the lp group, but that's probably a different topic.

David
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