Samba & CUPS - Could not start print job

Aleksandar B. Samardzic a.samardzic at matf.bg.ac.yu
Tue Apr 17 11:13:12 GMT 2001


I've tried both combinations (0700 and 0755) and tried also to change
owner to 'lp' and group to 'sys' (like /var/spool/cups) but with no results.

Thanks,
Alex


On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:03:53PM -0500, David Rankin wrote:
> "Aleksandar B. Samardzic" wrote:
> 
> > Ok, thanks to advices from some fine people my printer is now visible from
> > Windows clients and I even managed to have printer drivers stored on Linux
> > machine and downloaded to clients when installing printer. However, when
> > I try to print from some client, error message from subject line ("Could not
> > start print job") appears. Server is Samba 2.2.0alpha3, clients are
> > Windows 2000 Workstations, CUPS is 1.1.6, and my smb.conf is as attached
> > to this message. I've tried to raise Samba and CUPS log levels, but found
> > nothing in logs that could direct me how to further debug problem. Any idea
> > how to proceed?
> >
> 
> Just a hunch, but what are the permissions on the /var/spool/samba dir?
> 
> --
> David Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
> 




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