 |
Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Puppy HOME page : puppylinux.com "THE" alternative forum : puppylinux.info
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in|
The time now is Wed 19 Jun 2013, 15:29 All times are UTC - 4 |
 Forum index » Advanced Topics » Hardware » Printers |
|
Connecting Puppy to a Windows (or Samba) Shared Printer
|
 
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Page 1 of 1 [2 Posts] |
| Author | Message | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7834 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Puppy users who have a Windows shared printer on their network are familiar with the CUPS smb backend. BarryK has been updating the Samba client components and is looking at a replacement backend called smbc. It eliminates the symlink to smbspool and may work better for users who have authentication problems with Windows. Early adopters may want to test this. The PET below will not affect your current printing setup in any way, except to install the additional backend file into /usr/lib/cups/backend. When you run CUPS, the new backend is listed as Windows Printer using smbclient. You will install the printer with the URI:
If your Windows machine (or Samba server) requires authentication, there is now an additional file in /etc/samba named printing.auth. Store your login data there. For example:
Install your printer driver as usual.
Last edited by rcrsn51 on Sun 10 Oct 2010, 23:31; edited 3 times in total |
|||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
BarryK
Puppy Master  Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 6874 Location: Perth, Western Australia |
The latest Slackpup 0.4 has this 'smbc' printing backend. Spup 0.4 also has a HOWTO for testing this printing: /usr/share/doc/samba-printing.htm Note, Patriot is taking a look at the 'smbc' script, to see if it an be improved, also with a view to integrating it into lameSMBxplorer. Forum member perthie did a basic verification that 'smbc' works: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01704 I have built Spup 0.4 with Samba-tng with only the 'smbclient', 'nmblookup, 'smbsend', 'smbstatus' and 'testparm' utilities, plus the 'mount.cifs' and 'umount.cifs' from Samba 3.0.37: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01703 Anyone with interest in Samba is invited to test this! If you want the full Samba-tng package to setup a server: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01700 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/samba-tng-20100705-s131.pet Various other Samba PETs have been uploaded: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/ last but not least, where to get Spup 0.4: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01715 _________________ http://bkhome.org/blog2/ |
|||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Connecting Puppy to a Windows (or Samba) Shared Printer
| Page 1 of 1 [2 Posts] |
|
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
|
Forum index » Advanced Topics » Hardware » Printers |
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum |
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group