samba(2.2.8) printer server (on 4.8-RELEASE)
Derrick Ryalls
ryallsd at datasphereweb.com
Thu Jul 24 12:22:41 PDT 2003
>
> > 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
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