[Samba] Samba Printing with CUPS
Curt Koehn
c-koehn at bethel.edu
Mon Aug 5 08:28:02 GMT 2002
Don't know if this will help with your problem but I would change your
printer driver path to someplace other than the print spool directory.
Say '/etc/samba/drivers' or something else. See section 7.6 of the
Samba Howto document.
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:40, Mark Vodden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit new to the whole Samba printing thing and need some help. I am
> running Caldera OpenLinux with Samba 2.2.4 and CUPS 1.1.10. I have
> successfully managed to upload print drivers to the Samba server from a
> Windows NT client. I have then managed to add the printers to several
> windows clients without downloading drivers to them. This appeared to work
> fine, with excellent integration into our network.
>
> However, upon reboot of the Caldera server I have found that windows clients
> who need to add the printers now no longer recognise that the printers have
> drivers associated with them. This is pretty strange, as the drivers still
> sit in the /var/spool/samba directory!!! Can anyone help with this problem?
>
> Below is a copy of my smb.conf (with senxitive information removed):
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup =
> server string = Caldera Samba Server
> security = DOMAIN
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> password server =
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> max log size = 0
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> dns proxy = No
> wins server =
> winbind uid = 10000-20000
> winbind gid = 10000-20000
> winbind separator = +
> printing = cups
> printcap = cups
> load printers = yes
>
> [print$]
> comment = Printer Drivers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = yes
> guest ok = no
> read only = yes
> write list = (username is in here)
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> public = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writeable = no
> printable = yes
> printer admin = (username is in here)
>
> Thanks very much for your time!
>
>
> Mark Vodden
>
>
>
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Curt Koehn
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