samba(2.2.8) printer server (on 4.8-RELEASE)

[Derrick Ryalls]

> 
> > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 at 07:58:05 +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I am trying to set up a printer server
> > > (SAMBA 2.2.8 package on 4.8 -RELEASE, printer is a Kyocera
> > > FS-3700+ laser printer) which should be accessible from Win2000
> > > and WinNT4 workstations _without_ any authentication.
> > >
> > > These are the steps I have taken so far:
> > >
> > > 1. I used apsfilter to make the kyocera work locally as a
> > >    postscript-printer called lp .
> > > 2. (Sorry - stupid me forgot to bring home a copy of smb.cfg over
> > >     the weekend)
> > >    I edited smb.cfg so that the printer-server and lp itself can
> > >    be seen in Windows' network enviroment, i.e. I set
> > >    security = share
> > >    and put up a share called
> > >    [printers]
> > >      browseable = yes
> > >      path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > >      read only = yes
> > >      printable = yes
> > >      guest ok = yes
> > >    and I
> > >    # chmod -R 4777 /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > > 3. I used windows' printer setup to install the kyocera driver
> > >    for lp
> > > 4. When I try to print something, everything looks fine from the
> > >    client side and I can see some blinking of the
> > >    printer-server's LED's but nothing more happens.
> > >    The windows printer queue stays empty, no files are created in
> > >    /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > >
> > > Any ideas, what could be done next?
> >
> > did you let samba compile with cups support? (its set by default)
> >
> > If so, rebuild samba checking the box for nocups "without CUPS"
> >
> > and try printing again, most likely it will work perfectly.
> >
> > There appears to be a bug in the way samba handles the cups 
> support, 
> > my guess is it defaults the print/lprm/lppause/lpresume commands 
> > differently then it does when you specify nocups.
> Andrew,
> 
> thanks for your answer,
> it took me some time to recompile samba on a P75 without 
> cups. But the problem remains. Still I can see the documents 
> arriving in Windows' printing queue, but they aren't printed. 
> Do I perhaps have to produce a machine account for the 
> printer server in the Windows domain? I am asking this, 
> because in my mini home network, printing to samba works 
> fine, but there my samba-machine also acts as Primary Domain 
> Controller. Or - I configured the printer as Postscript 
> printer: Perhaps Windows cannot deal with that? Or - is there 
> any way to analyse the problem - looking at log-files p. ex. ?
> 

When I was trying to get a couple windows boxes to print to a Samba
shared, cups controlled printer, I had to do this on the windows side:

Control Panel -> add Printer
Specify Local Printer (even though the machine is remote)
Create a new Port
When prompted for a Local printer port name specify \\<machine>\<Samba
Printer>
Add windows printer driver for model of printer.
Print test page.

Hope this helps.

-Derrick