I initially thought this was a cups problem, but looks like samba now . . .
I have been using a Brother MFC9880 printer with Samba. Everything has been fine for the last month, until things stopped working recently (on a Monday morning with no intervention over the weekend. Samba log is below: My system: Debian woody Samba-2.2.3a-14.1 cupsys-1.1.14-5woody1 MFC9880 connected to server by USB. This has intermittently happened in the past and can sometimes be fixed by restarting samba/cups, but I can't affort outages in a busy office!! BTW - printing using cups by http (http://debian:631/printers/mfc9880) from windows client works fine - so I think the problem is with samba. Can anybody help?? My smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba %v) encrypt passwords = true obey pam restrictions = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spas sword:* %n\n . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No invalid users = root printing = cups printcap name = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp printable = Yes browseable = Yes guest only = yes use client driver = yes guest account = smbprint [public] path = /home/apache/files force user = www-data force group = www-data read only = No create mask = 0640 guest ok = Yes The errors in smb.conf: [2004/11/10 13:46:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(291) Unable to get printer status for mfc9880,winspool,ne04: - client-error-not-found [2004/11/10 13:46:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(249) robert (192.168.0.7) couldn't find service mfc9880,winspool,ne04: -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba