Network printing question: apsfilter + samba over Win2k network

Mike addymin at pacbell.net
Fri May 21 18:11:12 PDT 2004


Michal Pasternak wrote:
> Mike [Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:19PM -0700]:
> 
>>PROBLEM: I'm able to "see" the printer from the Win2k client accoss the 
>>network, Windows 2k prompts for a driver and I load the driver. Windows 
>>reports that the printer is "ready", however when I try to print a test 
>>page, nothing happens.
> 
> 
> Do the logs in /var/log/ say anything useful?
> 
Mike,

Hmm... the /var/log/log.smbd had several of these entries:

[2004/05/21 14:04:19, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printer_fn(107)
   Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused

So I added this rule to IPFW (for Cups):

ipfw add allow tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to me 515

And I re-started cups: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start

So now (it doesn't complain):

[2004/05/21 17:05:40, 0] smbd/server.c:main(791)
   smbd version 2.2.8a started.
   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002

I also check the lpd-errs log but couldn't find anything.  I've also 
re-read the apsfilter manual but it really doesn't cover in a detail how 
to configure to a Windows client network.

Mike



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