samba print share inaccessible

**hurtstotalktoyou** · March 21st, 2013

I'm trying to set up a network printer share through samba. I enabled "guest ok" in the smb.conf file for the printers:

Code:

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

and so now I can actually see the printer on my samba network. But when I set the authentication details and click "verify" I get a print share inaccessible error.

Searching the net for solutions, I discovered that one bug is the printer name can't contain spaces. So I changed the printer name so that it has the following samba address:

Code:

smb://WORKGROUP/PRIVATE-TVROOM/BrotherHL2140series

Of course I restarted samba and tried again to verify authentication, but it failed again with the same print share inaccessible error.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. I'm running Linux Mint 13 64-bit MATE on both host and client.

**Perfect Storm** · March 21st, 2013

Moved to Other OS/Distro Talk.

**gordintoronto** · March 22nd, 2013

This writeup is excellent:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ne...tingWithUbuntu

**hurtstotalktoyou** · April 3rd, 2013

gordintoronto,

Good idea to check that article, but unfortunately it did not fix the problem. I followed its instructions, but still I cannot access the printer through SAMBA.

Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks!