On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > On Wednesday 27 November 2002 17:17, John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I sent a question to the list yesterday about my problem printing from my > > > win98 laptop via samba in my linux box to my USB deskjet printer > > > connected to the linux box. > > > > Go back to your email of yesterday. What help were you asking for? You > > simply stated what was happening. If you want help from people on a > > mailing list then you need to be very brief and very clear about what help > > you need. > > Why do you say that I have to go back to that e-mail ?. > To the last. Then I'm sorry. I told in the e-mail from yesterday what the > problem was.
Oops. I double checked amd see you did ask for help. Apologies. 1) Have you logged out and restarted samba since creating the new USB printer? 2) What errors are reported in /var/log/cups/errors...? 3) What errors are being reported in /var/log/samba/... when you attempt to print to this machine? - John T. > > > I would recommend that you in the [printers] section you spool to > > /var/spool/samba, not to /tmp. The samba spool directory needs to be set > > with permissions 1777, ie: rwxrwxrwt. This is where the print jobs are > > collected from the Windows client, when the job has arrived it is then > > sent to the CUPS spooler. > > Thanks for this info. > > > Your information says nothing about your CUPS configuration. Can you print > > to the USB printer from Linux? > > As mentioned in the first e-mail, yes I can. > > Here is the printer.conf file: > ------------------------------------- > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.15 > # Written by cupsd on Wed 27 Nov 2002 03:30:52 PM GMT > <DefaultPrinter lj1100> > Info Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100 > Location Parallel printer on /dev/lp0 > DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 > State Stopped > StateMessage > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > <Printer usb> > Info Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 895C > Location USB printer on /dev/usb/lp0 > DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
