Thanks but samba was installed when did my 8.01 install from the original
Ubuntu download...I am Ok now and I cannot seem to help anyone else, thanks
for all your help.. all of you. Also smbclient maked it possible to print on
my win box attached printer.
I am sure you are right, and I know next to
I forgot to mention but I had the same problem, I put Samba4 on thinking
that would help but it did not, and I then did a complete removal of all the
samba4 and any other samba I could and then did a reinstall of samba via
synaptic. However this did NOT install the smbclient. I am puzzled by this
a
just install smbclient .. you can do this in the command window, not
abslotuley sure but I think it is something like:
sudo apt-get install smbclient
Make sure that samba is not loaded when you do this. you need to do a stop
on samba if it is running.
This worked great fro me under Ubuntu 9.04 and
I do not know how to do a test without reloading 9.04 . I do not have a
problem now and can print fine with 9.04 and a 32 bit O/S. If you can give
me a safe way to check out your idea I will try but I am very concerned that
I will be back in the mess again. It took me nearly 35 hours to have a
syst
Ed, Thanks , I did some checking and I have two other winxp systems each
with printers attached, both can print on the other machine.
I tried to follow someone who wrote about modifying smb.conf and messed it
up so badly that I downloaded a default version from ubuntu 8.4 as can't
find a default ve
Yes the printer does have the "hand" and it was working fine under 8.04.. I
also do not have ability to do the workaround as my GUI does not show
"windows printer via Samba"under networked printers in the
system>admin>printing GUI menu.. ( why not??)
The person who did the workaround used the 64 bi
Read:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1140448
The workaround does work.
Also, remember that SAMBA does not enable you to see Windows shares,
that is what smbclient does. SAMBA is what lets Windows see Linux
shares. Nonetheless, if you can see your Windows system's shares, then
this work
I switched to the amd64 version of 9.04 and can no longer reproduce the
bug since it isn't resident in the 64-bit version.
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Thierry Carrez wrote:
From: Thierry Carrez
Subject: [Bug 329974] Re: SIGSEGV in _nss_dns_gethostbyname2_r() browsing Samba
printers, i386 only
To: rem
