There are a number of reasons that this might fail. For the most part,
these reasons fall into the category of either transport related or
transformation related. Other problems can occur, but there isn't
enough information in your mail to tell. In the Windows remote printing
world, generally, print client systems generate printer ready output and
send the data on to the system with the printer so that it can forward
it to the device. To determine if the transport to the printer is
working you can check it by hand using smbclient and smbspool. Ex:
# smbclient -L 192.168.0.7
Password:
Domain=[TERMINATOR] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
E$ Disk Default share
term-hp4650 Printer HP CLJ 4650DTN PCL 6
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
SharedDocs Disk
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share
session request to 192.168.0.7 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[TERMINATOR] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
# smbspool smb://192.168.0.7/term-hp4650 test-1 me "title" 1 ""
/etc/motd
ERROR Can not get me uid
# smbspool smb://192.168.0.7/term-hp4650 test-1 root "title" 1 ""
/etc/motd
ERROR: No ticket cache found for userid=0
ERROR: Can not get the ticket cache for root
#
The printer I printed to is "connected" to a PC running Windows XP at
192.168.0.7 and shared as "term-hp4650". The printer handles ASCII
text, so I was able to print /etc/motd. In spite of the error messages
generated by smbspool, it still prints just fine (both times).
As far as the transformation part goes, you will need to find a PPD
files that works with your printer. Solaris 10 ships with a couple
thousand different PPD files and you can find more at
http://linuxprinting.org/database.html.
You might try directly connecting the printer to the Solaris host
temporarily while trying to find the best PPD file for it.
-Norm
Eric jean wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm on Solaris 10 and I followed the instructions written in
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/sol2win.htm
>
>
> but nothing is printed when I request a print job. The printed is connected
> to a Windows PC and is shared.
> My samba sharing files works fine.
>
> Why can't I access this printer form S10?
>
>
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