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- Configuring a printer using Samba is usually pretty trivial. Unfortunately, I spent weeks trying to get mine working. I had a HP 4110 Office Jet printer which works great on Linux. I wanted to share it with my other windows machines so I added a section in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file for the printer. All my windows machine were able to see the printer and I was even able to add it. But unfortunately, once I printed a page from windows, nothing happened…no error messages..nothing. I could see a new file getting created in /var/spool/cups. I had no clue and I found several days searching for a useful link.
Anyway, to make the story short, I then started to use a Generic driver instead of the HP drive and there you go…I was able to print a page. I then modified the driver to use MS Publisher Color Printer and then everything worked like a charm.
