Printing to canon bjc 610
Matt Hoover
matt at ind.cioe.com
Tue Mar 9 04:21:01 GMT 1999
Thanks for the leads on the docs - but unfortunately after exhausting all
avenues, I still got the same error. I have given all 777 permission to both
the divices and the spool directories - i still get the message in the samba
logs - cannot find wps service. What is this wps?
Thanks
Matt (reaching) Hoover :)
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999, Geoff Lane wrote:
> Matthew L. Hoover wrote:
> >
> > I am currently using the newest version of samba (2.03), and am very
> > impressed!
> ---
> Me too, although I've only just upgraded to 2.0.2!
>
> >
> > Could anyone please lead me to somedocumentation or the answer to
> > this problem. Oh, the windows error is one of those generic - 'could not
> > print to the network device, do you want to troubleshoot now?'
> ---
> Try looking in /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3/docs (my samba docs are in
> /usr/doc/samba-2.0.2/docs -- I'm assuming that 2.0.3 follows the same
> convention.) Take a look at textdocs/Printing.txt. This gives some useful
> information about debugging printing problems. It also gives a method for
> creating a RAW SMB printer that allows you to use the latest Windows driver
> for a *nix-hosted printer.
>
> I've had the same problems with 1.19 and 2.0.2. I had to change permissions
> on the print queues and printer devices so that everyone could write to them
> (OK, I cheated and did 'chmod -R 777 /var/spool/lpd' followed by 'chmod 777
> /dev/lp*' -- but I have a closed network and don't need the same security
> level as most).
>
> HTH,
>
> Geoff Lane
> Cornwall, UK
> geoff at gjctech.force9.net
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