Printing from RedHat to my iMac's shared printer, no permission ??

[michaelsanford]

The only way I've been able to even access my shared printer from my RedHat machine is by Windows SMB.

When selecting SMB in Printer Configuration I'm shown the two Macs on my network with Windows sharing enabled; I then select the printer shared on my iMac.

A form titled "Authenticaiton" appears with fields workgroup, server, share, user name and password, only the last two of which are editable (the others appear to be correctly filled in). However, when I enter my (admin) user's credentials the box disappears for a few seconds and then reappears, no warning messages or anything.

I assume that for some reason the authentication is failing.

I've edited /private/etc/smb.conf and added my private user group to the global/printer admin list, but the printers part is still the default. Does this mean that Apple's using a com.apple.smb.printer-type thing to configure windows printer sharing ?
[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes

Should I be trying CUPS or LPD or something else ? For that I need to know the iMac's printer spool path or socket or something else I don't know

 

[mr. k]

I set up a cups server from my imac to the pc with a shared printer the other day and it was a piece of cake - cups is already all installed and configured on the mac, and integrates perfectly with the various printer drivers already installed in panther.
Just go to localhost:631 on the panther machine and you can add printers fairly simply - I expect if you got cupsd running on your linux box it would work, and that would be a simple way to interface to your shared printer.
CUPS is a real simple way to set up network printing. I have my iMac sharing a HP DeskJet with a windows xp box via samba through cups, and its fairly simple to setup. The only tricky part was finding the correct samba path to refrence the printer - it was something like:

smb://user:password@machine/workgroup/shared_printer_name [darn smiley faces]

From a mac to a pc via samba the CUPS service works like a charm and takes about five minutes to set up, but I don't know about from your linux box to your mac.