Samba and CUPS

July 09, 2009 — BarryK

Forum member 'gerry' requested that /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb be a symlink to /opt/samba/bin/smbspool.

I presume that this is necessary to get CUPS working with Windows printers via Samba. Okay, I have added this to the cups packages in Woof.

Comments

yes, it is necessary
Username: jamesbond
Thanks Barry. I can confirm that it is necessary. Otherwise you can't even see the SAMBA printer in the CUPS web interface during creation of new printer device. cheers!

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