[samba] Help request setting w2000 to use Lexmark z25 printer onlinux RH7.3 running samba.

[David Harel]

Hi,

I am a newbie on samba. I use a vmware version which is slightly modified but I hope this group can still help. On the Linux machine I have set a Lexmark printer using Lexmark driver. This works fine but the way it works is that the filter does the actual connection to the printer (which uses USB port) whereas the lp directive is set to lp=/dev/null. (in case this piece of information is relevant).
On smb.conf I set the printer definition to:

[lexmarkz25-z35]
comment = lexmarkz25-z35
browseable = yes
printable = yes

I can see the printers from the w2000 client when I contact the server using \\Linuxmachine\
When I try to use any of the printers I get the message:
"Before you can use the printer \\Linuxmachine\lexmark it must be setup on your computer. Do you want Windows to set up the printer and continue the operation?"
Click the "Yes" button gives me another dialog:
"The server on which 'NULL' printer reside does not have the correct printer driver installed. If you want to install the driver on the your computer click OK."
Now I click OK. and wait for a long time until eventually I can set up a driver which I install using Lexmark original CD.
Eventually this does not work.

I also set a printer to check transport. This is called raw printer. In the printcap file I set it to write a file in /tmp
lp=/tmp/rawprintfile.
In smb.conf I set the print definition to:

[raw]
comment = lx3
browseable = yes
printable = yes
print command = lpr -b -Praw %s

And on the w2000 machine I set the printer driver to generic/text. This case works.

I suppose the problem is to install the correct driver on the w2000 machine. I do not know which. Also I read the article: http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN833
which confused me even further.

I will appreciate your help but please be patient with me. As I was saying I am new in the samba business.

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Thanks.

David Harel,

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