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Samba printing update



On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Kramer wrote:

> Apparently, swat decided I needed "Postscript = Yes" on that printer.
> When I changed that, it worked.  Then I tried it from my wife's
> computer, and she's not even seeing the printer.  I have Windows ME and
> she has Windows NT.  We're both in 192.168.1.1/24.  Is there something I
> can try to tell what the problem is?
>

Perhaps you could try this from a cmd window on the NT box:
    net view \\sambaserver

This is very similar to browsing in network neighborhood; however, somtimes
the error messages are more informative.

Also, does anything odd show up in /var/log/samba?


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