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8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3195 Location: Oregon

It is just Stupid me returning your query.
I went with the wrong approach and seeing two -tng files and assuming wrongly that the one with a six in it was the latest version, I did not have five downloaded.
It did work.
I could see the specified directory on a WinXP networked PC.
I guess I can blame it on all the pain pills I am taking for my progressively worse degenerative authritus.

p310don · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 09:07 Post subject:

Hi,

I have been using Samba-TNG for a while now just typing samba-start in terminal when I want to share stuff, but have only recently installed the autostart pet.

Strangely, samba seems to start, and if I search the network, I can see this machine, but there are no shares. I can only see them after a restart, ie samba-stop then samba-start.

Not a biggy, but any solutions would be appreciated

Thanks

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 09:45 Post subject:

On what device are the shares? An internal hard drive? A USB drive?

It sounds like the target partition has not been mounted yet when Samba auto-starts.

p310don · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 11:08 Post subject:

The shares are a bunch of internal hard drives that automount with start mount.

Included in the shares is the drive with Puppy's save file and puppy on it, which is of course mounted upon boot, but it doesn't share either.

Can the autostart be set to include a time delay after finding a live network, say ten seconds? How would I do that if I could to test if that's it?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 11:20 Post subject:

p310don · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 11:36 Post subject:

ok thanks, will try that tomorrow. Its 2am here. probably should get to bed instead of feeding my puppy addiction.... Wink

p310don · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 18:36 Post subject:

That fixed it!!

Thanks rcrsn51 for your super quick help!

I have no idea how you, and so many of the guys on here manage to just know the answers to problems like you do, but its awesome, and a credit to the Puppy community.

Thanks Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7518 Location: qld

I get an error trying to print from win7 to my slacko printer, MP490

I set it up as \\pupserver\Canon_MP490_series (local port) with the only driver I could see close to HP Color Lasejet PS, which is HP Color Laserjet 2800 series PS

Interestingly it prints (to the printer) the error!

To wit;

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7518 Location: qld

Ok, got puppy and apple printing to my pupserver Smile

in Slacko using CUPS-1.4.6 and mac-OSX-snowleopard using CUPS-1.4.7. Note I'm using Slacko as my pupserver too, shouldn't make a difference.

The rundown:

Open browser at localhost:631

Choose Windows Printer using smbclient

For Puppy the URI is :

smbc://pupserver/[printername_goes_here] (eg, mine is Canon_MP490_series)

For mac the URI is :

smb://pupserver/[printername_goes_here] (eg, mine is Canon_MP490_series) [note "smb" not "smbc"]

For Puppy:
Then you choose from the list Raw, then Raw Queue.

Then we slightly fork from rcrsn51's great instructions. The next window is titled "Banners". For the Starting Banner and Ending Banner choose standard from the pulldown lists. This is where I was going wrong I think.

This sets the default options, print your test page and you are away.

For Mac OS-X:
Then you choose the Generic drivers and at the bottom you find Generic PostScript. That's the one

Next page allows choice of paper size and then you are done. Print a test page from the Maintenance pulldown. You may have to configure applications to use the printer.

FOOTNOTE: in mac-osx your username and passworrd for CUPS is your name you entered when you first setup your mac all lowercase and no spaces, no underscores either. Password is the one you set up at that same time.

HTH

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2011, 20:35 Post subject:

In retrospect, it may be easier to let CUPS handle your shared printing instead of Samba. But I have never tested it with Win7 or OS-X.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7518 Location: qld

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2011, 20:55 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7518 Location: qld

I did some more experiments with CUPS in mac OS-X.

It seems CUPS is somewhat crippled in OS-X. Macs have a dumb gui to set up printers. They only offer a gui to set up detected local printers, "windows" shares (ie smb) and another to set up ipp, hp socket or lpd, that's it.

Of course none of this works with using CUPS as the server or samba-tng (and I suspect full samba).

As I reported a few posts ago, I was able to set up printing using smb://server/printer and print a test page. Ok.. but that is useless when you need to do some real world printing. I tried to print some of wifey's recipes (yes actual food recipes) that she had downloaded and saved as .odt documents with openoffice and no go. Nothing (but errors of course). So then I tried from various other apps, same result. <scratches head/>

Then I deleted the printer in the CUPS web interface and tried the HP Color Laserjet 2800 (presumably formatting as postscript) and I I could print, but it was garbage, just the title of the page and a CUPS logo, no matter what app.

I then discovered the generic category in the drivers list. At the bottom is the Generic PostScript driver. Bingo! Tried that and succeeded. The mac even recognised it in it's dumb wizard. I successfully printed a couple of said recipes and a web page from firefox. That's good enough for me.

I'll edit my above post for the mac.

Oh, and I think samba, be it full or tng, is the only easy way to print to puppy, perhaps most linux, from mac OS-X, without diving in and editing the CUPS config files at a minimum.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 15 Nov 2011, 10:13 Post subject:

Thanks for doing this testing.

ginco · Posted: Tue 17 Jan 2012, 07:59 Post subject:

Thanks: it works perfectly!
Only issue I got was because Firewall not disabled: I would put the word Firewall on bold in page 1 for future users. It's becoming a need as new Netbooks with Win7 Starter don't allow for IPP printing.
Did anybody try sharing a scanner as well (I already had it shared in Ubuntu)? Rcrsn51, I saw your comments about a Brother scanner, but I already have two, and would like to avoid buying a 3rd one...