Creating a Samba Based Printer Store on FOG
Overview
If you do not have a public sever where you can store your printer drivers for the FOG Printer Manager, then it is very easy to set one up on the FOG server using Samba, so all your Windows Clients will be able to connect.
Ubuntu (10.04+)
The first thing you must do is to install samba:
sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba
Create a new Linux user:
System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
Click Add User
Username: printerdrivers
Fullname: Printer Drivers
Password: somepassword
Create a directory to store the drivers:
sudo mkdir /opt/fog/printerdrivers sudo chown printerdrivers /opt/fog/printerdrivers -R
System -> Administration -> Samba
Preferences -> Server Settings... -> Security -> Guest Account
Set guest account to printerdrivers
Change Authentication Mode to Share
Click Add Share
Click browse and navigate to /opt/fog/printerdrivers
Share name: printerdrivers
Place a check mark next to visible and leave writable unchecked.
Click on the Access tab.
Select Allow access to everyone.
Click OK.
You should now be able to access the share (read-only) from a windows computer using the following path:
\\x.x.x.x\printerdrivers
Where x.x.x.x is the ip address of the FOG server.
Fedora
If you do not have a public sever where you can store your printer drivers for the FOG Printer Manager, then it is very easy to set one up on the FOG server using Samba, so all your Windows Clients will be able to connect.
The first thing you must do is to install samba:
yum install samba system-config-samba
Then make samba startup by default:
chkconfig smb on
Create a new Linux user:
System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
Click Add User
Username: printerdrivers
Fullname: Printer Drivers
Password: somepassword
Create a directory to store the drivers:
mkdir /opt/fog/printerdrivers
System -> Administration -> Samba Preferences -> Server Settings... -> Security -> Guest Account
Set guest account to printerdrivers
Change Authentication Mode to Share
Click Add Share
Click browse and navigate to /opt/fog/printerdrivers
Share name: printerdrivers
Place a check mark next to visible and leave writable unchecked.
Click on the Access tab.
Select Allow access to everyone.
Click OK.
You should now be able to access the share (read-only) from a windows computer using the following path:
\\x.x.x.x\printerdrivers
Where x.x.x.x is the ip address of the FOG server.
