I am trying to print from both a Win98 PC via Samba and a Red Hat 8.0 workstation to an HP 4 Plus printer that is connected to a Red Hat 8.0 server. I have managed to get the Win98 PC working OK, but am having difficulty with the RH8 workstation.
I set the printer up using a browser with <Server>:631, calling it HP4Plus, and I can send a test print from the browser on the RH8 box via <Server>:631. I can view and access the other server samba shares OK, but I am unable to send it a print job from the RH8 box. First of all on the RH8 box, I tried to set the printer as a UNIX Printer (lpd Queue) and named the server IP address and Queue name, but that didn't work. I have than told it that the printer is a Windows printer with the following settings: The Queue Type=Windows Share Name (HP4Plus) Username = valid user Password = valid password Host Ip - IP address of the server that is connected to the printer Workgroup = Windows workgroup (workgroup) I restarted cups, but it still doesn't print, and there are no entries in the /var/log/cups logs when I am trying to use Samba, but when I nominate the printer as a UNIX Printer (lpd Queue) I get in the /var/log/cups/access_log: <server> - - [31/Dec/2002:18:59:37 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 140 <server>- - [31/Dec/2002:18:59:37 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 140 <server>- - [31/Dec/2002:18:59:37 +1000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 80 <server>- - [31/Dec/2002:18:59:37 +1000] "POST /printers/HP4Plus HTTP/1.1" 200 11231 where <server> is the server that the printer is connected to. and in the /var/log/cups/error_log: E [31/Dec/2002:18:59:37 +1000] print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! It would seem that printing via Samba would be the best option, but I have not been able to get it working with Red Hat 8 and Samba AT ALL. In the Global part of smb.conf, I have: ---------------------------------------------------------------- load printers = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups ---------------------------------------------------------------- and in the shares part of smb.conf, I have: ---------------------------------------------------------------- [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes ---------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried removing these last 2 entries, but when I do the Win98 PC can't see the printer. I have just about run out of ideas. Can anyone shed any light on this? Regards, Brad -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
