In Leopard, "Windows sharing" has been integrated with the general
file and printer sharing options. Activating file sharing from System
Preferences gives one fine-grained access over SMB/AFP/FTP file
sharing. However, enabling printer sharing automatically starts
broadcasting printers with Bonjour, and also starts Samba to share
printers with Windows.
Can somebody explain the design compromises that led to rolling these
two printer sharing services together, without the option to disable
Samba? Since I don't have Windows systems, I have no need to run Samba
to share printers. Furthermore, deactivating Samba manually with
is not persistent across reboots. It seems that, on boot, both launchd
jobs are enabled if printer sharing has been activated. What is the
reasoning behind this? Is there no way to disable Samba printer
sharing if one desires to share printers with Bonjour and CUPS?
Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew J. Hesford <email@hidden>
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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