Samba How-To

[Stephen Schroder]

begin   Tim Freeman   quotation:

> This reference says how to set up a printer with Samba and CUPS: 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html 
> When I used it, this document seemed to be accurate about Samba, but 
> unfortunately CUPS never worked reliably for me, so this was a dead 
> end. If you already have CUPS working then IMO it's good to use. When 
> I retreated to lpr, I think I used this as my reference: 
> file:///usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/using_samba/ch07_01.html#s1 
> which is a copy of the OReilly "Using Samba" book and comes with the 
> samba-doc package. If I wanted to do something else with Samba, I'd 
> start with the latter URL above and find the relevant chapter of the 
> "Using Samba" book. 

Thanks for replying.  You must be using a newer version of samba, like 
3.0.1, because I don't have those files.  As you know I'm also using lpr 
with apsfilter.  I've learned that the O'Reilly  book  canbe found 
through the documentation link at http://www.samba.org. I obtained samba 
via apt-get install samba, and the version is 2.2.3a-12.3.  I  did find 
a HOWTO, in addition to man smb.conf, at 
/usr/share/doc/samba-common/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf.  It was a gzip 
file that needed to be decompressed.  Now all I have to do is make the 
damn thing work. ;-)

Steve
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