[Samba] Clients can find printer when
Steve Cohen
stevecoh1 at comcast.net
Sun Jun 6 15:23:46 GMT 2004
This is REALLY starting to annoy me. I have now set up a Win98 client on the
network. Once again I install the proper driver. Once again the Windows
system can browse to the printer. Once again, printing appears to the client
as if it's happening. Once again nothing comes out of the printer. Once
again, there's nothing in the logs to indicate WTF is going on other than the
Domain Master Browser.
Yet if I run
nmblookup -M -d5 DARROW335
The output tells me that the machine I am running it from IS the domain master
browser:
[root at RAINIER samba]# nmblookup -M -d5 DARROW335
Initialising global parameters
params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
Processing section "[global]"
doing parameter workgroup = DARROW335
doing parameter server string = samba server
doing parameter security = SHARE
doing parameter encrypt passwords = Yes
doing parameter obey pam restrictions = Yes
doing parameter pam password change = Yes
doing parameter passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
doing parameter passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
doing parameter unix password sync = Yes
doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
doing parameter preferred master = No
doing parameter domain master = No
doing parameter dns proxy = No
doing parameter wins server = 192.168.123.70
wins_srv_load_list(): Building WINS server list:
192.168.123.70,
1 WINS server listed.
doing parameter guest ok = Yes
doing parameter hosts allow = 192.168.123.0/255.255.255.0
doing parameter printing = cups
pm_process() returned Yes
added interface ip=192.168.123.60 bcast=192.168.123.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=192.168.254.1 bcast=192.168.254.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
bind succeeded on port 0
socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0
socket option SO_REUSEADDR = 1
socket option SO_BROADCAST = 1
Could not test socket option TCP_NODELAY.
socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0
socket option IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0
socket option SO_SNDBUF = 65535
socket option SO_RCVBUF = 65535
socket option SO_SNDLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_RCVLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_SNDTIMEO = 0
socket option SO_RCVTIMEO = 0
Socket opened.
querying DARROW335 on 192.168.123.255
Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.123.255) on port 137
Received a packet of len 62 from (192.168.123.60) port 137
nmb packet from 192.168.123.60(137) header: id=12688 opcode=Query(0)
response=Yes
header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=Yes rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes
header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0
answers: nmb_name=DARROW335<1d> rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=259200
answers 0 char @...{< hex 4000C0A87B3C
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.123.60 ( 192.168.123.60 )
192.168.123.60 DARROW335<1d>
Can someone tell me what all this means? Is this DMB stuff even relevant to
the non-printing problem here? I have read through all the troubleshooting
guides in "Using Samba" by Eckstein, et al. No answers there to my
condition.
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:41 pm, Steve Cohen wrote:
> Thanks, Chris:
>
> I tried your suggestions both here and in your other email about getting
> rid of the Hosts Allow (which was really just something I'd tried earlier
> and not something I needed). While they appear to have gotten me further
> they've not gotten me all the way there yet.
>
> Now, when I try to print a document from Windows, it goes through all the
> pages (spooling, I think) but then an error message pops up indicating that
> it failed to print (and of course no print comes out). It won't tell me
> WHY it failed to print, just that it failed. (This is more feedback than I
> got before, so it's a step forward).
>
> I do notice that my log.nmbd file contains these messages:
>
> [2004/06/05 23:05:26, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358)
> find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
> Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name DARROW335<1b> for the
> workgroup DARROW335.
> Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.
>
> I get these messages whether the Linux box is or is not the Domain Master
> Browser. And I find no configurability of Domain Master Browser at all on
> the XP side.
>
> These messages appear every fifteen minutes and are independent of any
> attempt to print. None of the other samba logs describe an attempt to
> print, and there is nothing in the XP event viewer logs either
>
> Very frustrating.
>
> On Saturday 05 June 2004 6:24 pm, McKeever Chris wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:05 , Steve Cohen <stevecoh1 at comcast.net> sent:
> > >I had a working Samba installation on my home network. Then I replaced
> > > one printer with another. The new printer is successfully installed on
> > > my RedHat 9.0 system on /dev/lp0. It is an Epson C82. From the RedHat
> > > system all is well.
> > >
> > >However, I am unable to print to this printer via Windows XP boxes on my
> > >network. Samba is working to the extent that Windows can find these
> > > printers via browsing. But that's it.
> > >
> > >At first, I would get access denied messages under "Status" on Windows'
> > >"Printers and Faxes" window. At that time my smb.conf looked like this:
> > >
> > >[root at RAINIER samba]# cat smb.conf
> > ># Samba config file created using SWAT
> > ># from RAINIER (127.0.0.1)
> > ># Date: 2004/06/05 16:09:08
> > >
> > ># Global parameters
> > >[global]
> > > workgroup = DARROW335
> > > server string = samba server
> > > security = SHARE
> > > encrypt passwords = Yes
> > > obey pam restrictions = Yes
> > > pam password change = Yes
> > > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> > > passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> > >*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> > > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> > > unix password sync = Yes
> > > log level = 3
> > > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> > > max log size = 0
> > > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> > > preferred master = Yes
> > > domain master = Yes
> > > dns proxy = No
> > > wins server = 192.168.123.70
> > > guest ok = Yes
> > > printing = cups
> > >
> > >[homes]
> > > comment = Home Directories
> > > valid users = %S
> > > read only = No
> > > create mask = 0664
> > > directory mask = 0775
> > > browseable = No
> > >
> > >[printers]
> > > comment = All Printers
> > > path = /var/spool/samba
> > > printable = Yes
> > > browseable = No
> > >
> > >[Epson]
> > > path = /var/spool/samba
> > > read only = No
> > > hosts allow = 192.168.123
> > > printable = Yes
> > > printer name = Epson
> > > oplocks = No
> > >
> > >[testshare]
> > > path = /tmp
> > > guest account = ftp
> > > read only = No
> > > hosts allow = 192.168.123.0/255.255.255.0
> >
> > sorry for the double post - but make sure your host allow is right, you
> > have two different ones within the file (I have never used it) my
> > suggestion, take it out for now, start basic - get it to work and then
> > add from there till you break something or get your desired result.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
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> >
> > >After reading some of the documentation, I came upon
> > >"Use Client Driver". This looked reasonable, since I was in fact
> > > installing the driver on the Windows boxes. I added this parameter to
> > > the config, under the "Epson" section, restarted smbd and nmbd and now,
> > > I no longer saw "Access Denied", I saw "Ready", but still, all attempts
> > > to print to this printer from the Windows boxes yielded nothing. And
> > > all the auxiliary functions like "Print Test Page" from Windows timed
> > > out.
> > >
> > >Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
> > >
> > >Steve Cohen
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