[95387] in RedHat Linux List
samba printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete)
Sat Oct 17 20:15:51 1998
From: "Pete" <plaven@idl.net.au>
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 09:45:19 +1000
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Hi everyone,
I have been busy for the last few days trying to get printing under
samba to work. The closest I came was that the 95 machine was
sending it's print job to the samba spool, and there it stayed. I
printed out the spooled files using lpr -r -P bj200 /var/spool/samba/*.
Now, since then I have done something and now nothing is sent to
the samba spool at all.
Windows is coming up with an error that goes along the lines of:
There was an error printing to \\piglet\bj200 there was a problem
printint to the printer due to an unknown system error. Restart
windows and try printing again, the printer is set to offline.
Now I have been over the man pages and the samples, and nothing
is helping here. The worst thing of all is that my wife is really giving
my a hard time about this.. sigh.. :)
The things that work:
The printcap is fine, I can print from the linux box and I can print
remotely from another linux box.
For a while there the print jobs were spooling to /var/spool/samba.
Printing these proved that printing in general is working.
What doesn't work:
Printing from windows clients. I have been getting the above error
EVERYTIME I print, even when the job were spooling.
Help required:
Pointers about settings on both the client (win95) and server (linux)
please. I'm obviously missing something, or stuffed up my
smb.conf big time.
Here are the printer part of it:
GLOBAL settings:
; printing = BSD or SYSV or AIX, etc.
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
; added lines for printing
; this will print a line to the print.log and then print out and remove
the prin
; t job.
; print command = echo Printing %s >> /var/log/print.log; lpr -r -P
%p %s
lpq command = lpq -P %p
lprm command = lprm -P %p %j
; print command = cp %s /tmp/tmp.print
the BJ200 share:
[BJ200]
comment = Bubble Jet 200
printer driver = Cannon Bubble-Jet BJ-200
printer name = BJ200
printable = yes
browseable = yes
public = no
writeable = no
create mode = 700
path = /var/spool/samba
print command = echo Printing on BJ200 %s >>
/var/log/print.log ; lpr -r -P%
p %s
Now some observations:
When connecting to the print share, I'm not seeing BJ200( the
share name above) , but bj200 (dunno where this is)
Also, I have setup the printer driver line to the Exact string you see
when win95 wants a printer driver, yet I'm still asked for it, I'm
guessing that my [BJ200] isn't setup right.
Each change to the smb.conf is followed by a smb restart.
Thanks for your time and help,
Pete
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