Samba Print Server 10.04 Documentation Doesn't Work

[David Gettis]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/samba-printserver.html

I followed all of the directions in the "Samba Print Server" documentation for 10.04, in order to share my ubuntu printer with a Windows Vista client. After following the instructions, I could see my printer in Vista, and was able to add it, but Vista could not print to it. I then found a page with slightly different instructions, and they worked. In addition to what the Ubuntu documentation describes, I also made the following edits to smb.conf get print sharing fully operational:

In the Printing section:
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups

In the Printers section:
use client driver = yes
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
security = share

Print sharing is a very basic function that should be easy to use, and it is very frustrating when the official instructions don't work; it makes one wonder if the fault lies with ubuntu itself.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

The Ubuntu Documentation team has moved the serverguide out of the ubuntu-docs source, it is now under the serverguide project. Moving this bug accordingly.

I'll keep this open under ubuntu-docs, we may be able to do a SRU for this in Lucid since it looks like just configuration changes.

[John Kim (kotux)]

Hello, refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/serverguide/samba-printserver.html, or simply samba.xml in saucy serverguide. Can somebody test this between a Windows and Ubuntu machine?

[Peter Matulis (petermatulis)]

The 10.04 version of the Server Guide will not be receiving any more corrections. Sorry.