43.5. Adding a New Printer Share

The default Samba configuration usually contains the special printers share, which indicates that all printers on your system are available to SMB clients. A specific printer, however, can be explicitly shared. This may be better than having them all shared automatically, as it allows you to set different options for each printer or exclude some from sharing altogether.

Before printing and the browsing of printers in Samba will work properly, it must be configured to use the right print system for your UNIX box. See Section 43.15 “Configuring Printers” for details of how to set this. If it is set incorrectly, the server will use the wrong commands for listing printers and submitting jobs, which may cause the automatically ...

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