Lucid won't share printers via samba

[Dax Solomon Umaming]

Binary package hint: cups

Samba's sharing my folders without problems except the printers. I have 1 shared network printer and 1 local printer attached via USB, an HP OfficeJet J3608 All-in-One.

I've tried googling for answers but the solutions I've stumbled upon doesn't seem to work. I've also tried configuring the .conf files to no avail. Attached are the screenshot of my shared printer and the folder which should also show the shared printers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.46-generic-pae 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 17 22:36:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
Lpstat:
 device for ELumines: smb://DPS/ELUMINES/HPDeskjet
 device for Officejet-J3600-series: hp:/usb/Officejet_J3600_series?serial=CN0285Z0PT052M
 device for Officejet-J3600-series-Fax: hpfax:/usb/Officejet_J3600_series?serial=CN0285Z0PT052M
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 Officejet-J3600-series: HP Officejet j3600 Series hpijs, 3.10.2
 Officejet-J3600-series-Fax: HP Fax hpijs
 ELumines: HP Deskjet f4200 Series hpijs, 3.10.2
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic-pae root=UUID=e33abbca-fece-4b1a-80a4-725ec1eea1ca ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_PH.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 05/12/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0301
dmi.board.name: P5P800-VM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0301:bd05/12/2006:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnP5P800-VM:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust)]

Attached are smb.conf cupsd.conf and printers.conf

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Uncomment (remove the ";" in the beginning) the two lines

; printing = cups
; printcap name = cups

in smb.conf. Then restart Samba and printers should get shared. Please tell whether it works for you.

[Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust)]

Still doesn't show the printers, already restarted both cups and samba. Also rebooted just to be sure but still no go.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Do your printers work locally? Are they listed by

lpstat -v

Are your printers set as "shared"? You can do this with system-config-printer. Right-click the printer icon and choose "Shared" in the pop-up menu so that it gets a check mark.

[Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust)]

yes it does, both the local and shared (from XP) printers works well. I just can't share them. And both are listed on lpstat. Both printers are also set as shared.

What bothers me though, after doing Google and LP search, is that I think I'm the only one affected by this bug (on Lucid).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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