Darren Watt

Ok, I keep running into this and trying to work out how to fix it. The setup is WinXP trying to print via a shared printer on Ubuntu server. In XP the printer shows as available but ‘unable to connect, access denied’. To sort this: edit the smb.conf file. sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf Find the [printers] [...]

Had a few problems getting a networked printer from a Windows share working in Leopard – and googling to find the solution showed that I wasn’t the only one, so here’s a quick tut on how I got it going in the end… Forget trying to add the printer in the System Prefs – looks [...]