Topic: Printserver, CUPS and SMEserver

[Stuart]

Hi,

Anyone tried to setup SME as a printserver for a predominantly windows based network? I assume it can be done using SAMBA, but I haven't seen any postings on using CUPS as the printer driver, or sharing printers via SAMBA in any howto's or other docs.

Any user experience doing this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart

[Dan Brown]

Yep, it's called installing SME.  IOW, SME is a print server out of the box.

[Peter Choi]

Then how can we configure Samba with e-smith server?

[Dan Brown]

You don't; it Just Works.  I'm pretty sure setting up printers is covered in the manual.

[Rick]

it's very straight forward to get your printer working on your e-smith box

from the server manager go to add printer, give it a name, tell it which port it is connected to. mine looks like this

Name    Description Location Remote address Remote name  

laser     hplaser        lp0          N/A                  N/A


in windows go to add printer, tell it it is a local printer (not network) go to configure port once you have set it up and installed the drivers etc (the drivers are installed on the windows machine remember, don't worry about printing a test page just yet) you can then change the port settings to reflect your server name and printer name eg; on my machine my server name is e-smith and my printer name on the e-smith box is laser, so my port is configured like this   \e-smith\laser   in windows, depending on your individual setup whether you will need a user name and password (I have found that win2k and xp is better at this than some others) if you do require a user name and password for this then you can easily setup a user on your e-smith box to match your windows logon and password to achieve this.

hope this is of some help, if you have trouble understanding what I am referring to then I could send you some screen shots if you get stuck. but I think you will

[isaac van den berg]

I've a somewhat related problem specific to W2000 it seems.

> in windows go to add printer, tell it it is a local printer
snip
> box is laser, so my port is configured like this  
> \e-smith\laser   in windows, depending on your individual
> setup whether you will need a user name and password (I have
> found that win2k and xp is better at this than some others)

This works for me in W98 and XP, but I cannot do this in WIN2000(server) that is the port does not show up in the ports section.

I can connect to the samba printer though via the printersetupwizard and select "networkprinter". The printer than gets the name of the connection eg "laserjet on e-smitserver".

My problem is that  it's a printer with 2 identities (PCL and Postscript). Because i cannot get W2K to create the \e-smitserver\laserjet port i cannot setup the printer in a secondmode and print to the same (samba)port.