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    printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Printer sharing worked fantastically on 9.04 Jaunty but won't work on 9.10 Karmic. First of all, enabling printer sharing won't make it broadcast the printer service via zeroconf (Bonjour). I can get around that by manually creating an Avahi service with a config in /etc/avahi/services/. However, the real problem pops up when I try to add the shared printer to the other computers in my network. On Windows when I try to add the shared printer, it says "You do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to the selected printer." On a Mac, it will let me install the printer, but it will not let me submit jobs to the shared printer. Ubuntu 9.10 can't even discover the shared printer.

    For now, I will stick to 9.04. I hate seeing what seems to be a regression in 9.10.

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Hi,

    I have the same kind of issues.
    It used to work in 9.04 server but in 9.10 server, other computers can't discover the printer (OsX Snow Leopard & Ubuntu 9.10 client).
    Does anyone has an idea on how to address tis issue ?

    Thanks in advance

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Same here. Has this been listed as a bug yet? I wonder if the problem is in the sharing of it by the server or the discovery of the client.

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    And what about removing cups and building it from source ?

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    Smile Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Only discovered yesterday that printing over the network via my upgraded (9.10) computer no longer works from a 9.04 or a Windows machine.

    But after a lot of experimentation I've discovered a horrible hack!

    Go to System > Administration > Samba and double click your printers directory (see attached).
    Now select the "Access" tab and enable "Allow Access to Everyone".
    Now click OK and wait a short time, then close the Samba dialog window.

    * The good news: you can now print from remote computers!

    * The bad news: when you reboot your 9.10 pc you won't be able to print.

    So next time you have to set "Access" to "Only Allow Access to Specific Users", select a user, click OK, wait a short time, then set it back to "Allow Access to Everyone". ...then you can print.

    Hopefully, by the time the novelty of this little ritual has wore off there will be a fix for it!


    Additional: Even simpler (but not nearly so entertaining) is to stop then restart Samba. You can do this via terminal or even make yourself a dinky script.

    Commands are:-
    sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
    sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
    ...and you can check the status:-
    sudo /etc/init.d/samba status
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    Last edited by SteveDee; November 5th, 2009 at 03:12 PM. Reason: Added: "Additional" method.

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Same issue here. Upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 and now none of my printing works. I had local network printing and IPP working perfectly. I even tried installing the printer and then sharing it on another computer with a fresh 9.10 install. No prevail.

    This is sort of a big one guys... how can these problems slip through every time? So many things were fixed with 9.10 and then this is allowed to happen.

    I sure hope this is figured out soon!

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Same problem here. Has anyone posted a bug for this?

    Could this be some kind of firewall issue?

    afaik, I don't have a firewall installed...

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    Smile Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    I worked around this problem by adding a line to /etc/rc.local
    Code:
    sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
    then insert this line before exit0
    Code:
    /etc/init.d/samba restart
    This restarts Samba and starts the nmbd process, that is causing the problem by initializing too early in the boot process. After doing this test by rebooting or a
    Code:
    sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
    then check nmbd with
    Code:
    sudo /etc/init.d/samba status

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Thank you!! The code worked great and I can print again.

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    Re: printer sharing worked in 9.04 but not 9.10

    Printer sharing via SAMBA with the provided init edit seems to work.

    But does anybody actually know what's wrong with sharing CUPS/IPP/Bonjour?

    I didn't even have SAMBA installed prior to this issue, and I'd rather not have it installed if I can help it.

    Pretty bittersweet as it is.

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