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[SOLVED]LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:26 pm
by toomuchcoffee
Alright...
I have a desktop and a laptop both running W7 and LMDE (dual boot).
The printer is connected to the desktop with usb. How can I share the printer with my laptop?
From what I could dig up so far I need to setup samba and cups to achieve this, problem is I don't really know where to begin..
Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance
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Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:52 am
by toomuchcoffee
I'll keep talking to myself and see where that gets me... and I'll go editing this post along the way.
For starters I tried using the 2 comps running LMDE.
I've found this old topic >>
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=28397
Changing settings in CUPS interface (localhost:631) gives me an error FORBIDDEN..
Found how to fix this
here
try adding your user account to the 'lpadmin' group.
see /etc/cups/cupsd_conf . the SystemGroup is usually 'lpadmin'.
lpadmin s/b in /etc/group .
to add a user named joe to lpadmin, from command line:
adduser joe lpadmin .
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:59 pm
by altair4
In Debian Mint ( at least the XFCE version ) Samba is pretty much broken by default so you should have done this first:
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sudo apt-get install libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient
sudo apt-get install python-smbc
Then edit smb.conf as root:
Add the following line to the [global] section:
Then look for the [printers] share and change the "guest ok" line from no to yes:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = No
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Then restart samba:
On the CUPS end:
** Make sure you can print locally to the printer.
** Then run:
And do all this stuff:
Server > Settings > Check "Publish Shared Printers connected to this system"
Right Click the attached printer > Properties > Policies > Check Enabled, Accepting Jobs, and Shared
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:43 pm
by ddalley
altair4 wrote:In Debian Mint ( at least the XFCE version ) Samba is pretty much broken by default so you should have done this first:
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sudo apt-get install libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient
sudo apt-get install python-smbc
Our neverending SAMBA journey continues.
The libsmbclient is installed here, however the other two files are not.
altair4 wrote:Then edit smb.conf as root:
Add the following line to the [global] section:
I also edited this file to unremark the name resolving line and reorder it, as usual with host last, to actually set up the networking printer driver.
For some reason the icon won't let me rename it, though.
altair4 wrote:Then look for the [printers] share and change the "guest ok" line from no to yes:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = No
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Would you remind me again what this does, please?
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:15 pm
by altair4
If you're talking about the [printers] share, it's set up to require credentials from the client before printing is allowed. Setting "guests ok" to yes allows anyone to print to that printer.
BTW, the [printers] share really isn't a share like a folder share in Samba. It creates a sharable printer for every printer that CUPS passes to it. That's why the [printers] share itself is not browseable.
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:21 pm
by ddalley
Um, so that means it is for sharing through the computer to which the printer is attached?
My printer is on a NAS box's USB port, so it isn't attached to a PC directly and I've never had to make a guest edit before for it to work.
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:11 pm
by toomuchcoffee
altair4 wrote:In Debian Mint ( at least the XFCE version ) Samba is pretty much broken by default so you should have done this first:
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sudo apt-get install libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient
sudo apt-get install python-smbc
Then edit smb.conf as root:
Add the following line to the [global] section:
Then look for the [printers] share and change the "guest ok" line from no to yes:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = No
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Then restart samba:
On the CUPS end:
** Make sure you can print locally to the printer.
** Then run:
And do all this stuff:
Server > Settings > Check "Publish Shared Printers connected to this system"
Right Click the attached printer > Properties > Policies > Check Enabled, Accepting Jobs, and Shared
Had done all that up to running
It launches but I got this on the terminal:
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coffee@coffee ~ $ system-config-printer
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.86:/: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.85" (uid=1000 pid=3810 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-config-printer ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.86" (uid=0 pid=3815 comm="/usr/lib/cups-pk-helper/cups-pk-helper-mechanism ")
And the window seems to freeze after some time..
Right clicking the printer gives me an error:
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Option 'printer-resolution' has value '(unknown IPP tag)' and cannot be edited.
but everything is setup the way you instructed
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The printer is connected to the box through USB, box is connected to router, laptop is on wireless... when I try to print from the laptop I get a "printer is not responding"..
I already switched from coffee to beer by now
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edit:
I ran your how/to on sharing folders between both machines yesterday and it worked perfectly..
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:24 pm
by altair4
coffee@coffee ~ $ system-config-printer
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.86:/: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.85" (uid=1000 pid=3810 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/system-config-printer ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.86" (uid=0 pid=3815 comm="/usr/lib/cups-pk-helper/cups-pk-helper-mechanism ")
Cheese and crackers ! I have no idea what that's all about. I try to stay away from Debian based Mint for reasons like this. Was this an update to an earlier LMDE or was this a new install of the latest respin? I try to do some searches on that message but it looks like multiple failures to me.
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:36 pm
by altair4
I did a search on the second error message:
Option 'printer-resolution' has value '(unknown IPP tag)' and cannot be edited.
And it sent me back to this forum:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99361
It appears to be a known bug.
Re: LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:07 pm
by toomuchcoffee
Its a fresh UP4 final install... the laptop is the RC but everything is updated, the error probably has something to do with the UI... but like I said all the options are ticked, everything matches.
Re: [SOLVED]LMDE Sharing a printer (home network)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:39 pm
by toomuchcoffee
Three letters, the first is a
u, the second a
f... can you guess the third one?
Oh man I went through folders and conf's and.. grrr.
Thank you very much for your help altair
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Actually I'm not even sure if it was the firewall....