Hmmm... I thought you can print well from the server itself? Are you sure you were ever using BSD printing. Maybe you were really using lprng. I think samba defaults to bsd. Have you got a printing parameter in your smb.conf? Joel
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:13:17PM -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Second update: > > On the advice of someone else on this mailing list, I converted from BSD > printing to CUPS (still using samba). Doing so has given me what is perhaps > a more identifiable error message. When I send a job to the server, I check > the que and get the following response: > > thedude@floyd:~> lpstat -t > scheduler is running > system default destination: lp > device for lp: samba://192.168.1.101/lp > lp accepting requests > printer lp disabled - > reason unknown > lp-1 thedude 164864 Sun Oct 6 19:07:36 2002 > > So it seems that the printer is disabled for some reason. The job just stays > there in the que and never prints. > > - -Dan > > On Thursday 03 October 2002 15:23, Joel Hammer wrote: > > Do you understand how printing works with samba? > > Essentially, you just transfer the file to the samba spool directory, and > > invoke lpr to print the file. You will need to look at your smb.conf file > > to see what is supposed to happen. I would set up a share just for your > > printer and not rely on the generic printer share that smb.conf comes with. > > > > Here is the sort of printer share I have: > > This take a postscript file as input, invokes lpr to print to queue ps on > > the server, which translates postscript files for my lexmark printer. > > > > Joel > > > > > > > > [ps] > > path = /tmp > > read only = No > > create mask = 0700 > > guest ok = yes > > hosts allow = 192.168. > > printable = Yes > > printing = lprng > > print command = echo %J %p %s >> /tmp/junkJ;\ > > a="`echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*- //"`" ;\ > > echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\ > > /usr/bin/lpr -Pps -J"$a" %s;\ > > rm %s > > lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Pps > > lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Pps %j > > lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold z53 %j > > lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release z53 %j > > share modes = No > > use client driver = yes > > > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:47:27PM -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hello, everyone - > > > > > > I've been trying for two weeks now to get my print server operational > > > under Samba. After walking through the howtos and tweaking the configs > > > per spec, it just ain't working. Printing from a client machine sends, > > > and then nothing happens. No error messages or anything similar. > > > > > > Printing from the server works fine, but not from the clients. > > > > > > Setup: > > > > > > 4 machine network, 3 clients, 1 samba file/print server > > > SuSE 7.3 running on all machines. > > > HP 2P parallel printer on lp0 of server > > > > > > What else can I tell you to help figure this out? > > > - -Dan Sawyer > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > > > iD8DBQE9nJ7TaB8ur/y6V8gRArm9AJ9rRc8yhDm5Catchqv4SXedOqs5qwCfSWS/ > > > 2IayciR10uTYysD/3F24UdE= > > > =TMQV > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9oO3BaB8ur/y6V8gRAiAJAJwNmGtKOhWamaEBO2oX2bTlI0T7DACfXWEj > WPZ2VS/XixCF6xBqgXbDQyc= > =nwXl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba