[Samba] smbspool to NT printer

[Norbert Froese]

Thank you.  smbclient works just as you describe.  As all the printers I use are
postscript printers, filtering is not an issue.

Interestingly (to me anyway), smbclient will only connect if I supply the server's
IP address with the -I option.  As far as I can tell, there isn't any way to
supply the IP address within the printserver URI used by smbspool.

Joel Hammer wrote:

> I don't know a thing about NT but:
> Have you tried, from your linux box:
> smbclient //server/printer
> Then, do the user/password thing
> Then:
> print Printfile
> Of course, it would help if Printfile were formated for your printer.
> If that works, you should be able to print without much trouble.
> The print command to use, if this all works, is:
> cat Printfile | smbclient //server/printer (PaswordStuff) -c " print -"
> Or something close to it. If THIS works, then learning to set up a print filter
> should be your next project.
> If you have a postscript printer, you might not even need to reformat your
> documents to print them. Just print your document to a file, then use the
> above command to send it to your printer. I am not even sure if you would
> need lprng or whatever if this works and meets your needs.
> Joel
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 07:23:57PM -0700, Norbert Froese wrote:
> > I am trying to set up my Debian(Woody) laptop(HP Omnibood500) to work in
> > a NT-centric instutution.  I started this with very little understanding
> > of networks
> >
> > I can now mount my NT file share without problems (learning alot about
> > networks in the process) but am having problems with network printing.
> >
> > I decided to use CUPS but it didn't work.  In an effort to troubleshoot,
> > I tried to use smbspool directly.
> >
> > I have the following information:
> > Print Server Name:   server
> > Print Server Domain: domain
> > Print Server IP:     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > Printer Name:        printer
> > My NT username       username
> > My NT password       password
> >
> > I did the following
> >
> > # export DEVICE_URI="smb://username:password@server/printer"
> > # echo $DEVICE_URI
> > smb://username:password@server/printer
> > # smbspool 0 0 0 0 0 mozilla.ps
> > ERROR: cli_connect() failed...
> > ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...:
> > Success
> > ERROR: cli_connect() failed...
> > ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...:
> > Success
> > ERROR: cli_connect() failed...
> > ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...:
> > Success
> > ERROR: cli_connect() failed...
> > ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...:
> > Success
> >
> > The network information I believe is correct because I was able to
> > print, although inconsistantly, with lprng. It comes straight off a
> > Windows2000 Printer Test Page
> >
> > I have tried many variations for the URI without success.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions as to how I could best troubleshoot this
> > problem.  Or would I be best off going back to lprng, as I seemed to be
> > further along trying to get that to work?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
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