Network printing question: apsfilter + samba over Win2k network

Pavel Duda element at email.cz
Sat May 22 01:29:57 PDT 2004


Mike wrote:

> 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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I recommend to take a look at cups logs.



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