[KLUG Members] linux as print server

[Adam Williams]

>I have a hp laserjet connected to my linux box that I'd like to make available
>to some win 9x machines on the network.    The win machines already benefit from
>IP MASQuerading, so the network is fine.  But I can't browse to find the linux
>machine.
>I installed samba and configured smb.conf, but I can't see the Linux machine in
>Network Neighborhood nor by using Find/Computer.

Is the workgroup set the same?

Can you poll the Win9x boxes from the Linux box with "smbclient -L
{win9xname}"?

What is the security mode on your Samba box?

>Seems like it should be simple, but haven't seen it yet.

Optimism?  Wow, I haven't seen that in awhile.  I'll delist it from the
"things endangered" class. :)