[Samba] Samba / cups problem

Misty Stanley-Jones misty at borkholder.com
Tue Sep 28 14:59:52 GMT 2004


Hi all,

I have set up a printer in cups and I can see it with lpstat -a, and I can 
print to it.  I put what I thought was the appropriate stuff in smb.conf, and 
yet no printer shows up to the NT client I'm testing with, or in smbclient -L 
output.  Any ideas at all?  Here is the relevant info:

### smb.conf excerpts ###
[global] 
... 
printing = cups 
printcap name = cups 
printcap cache time = 60 
load printers = yes 
... 
 
[printers] 
comment = All Printers 
path = /data/samba/spool 
browseable = yes 
public = yes 
guest ok = yes 
writeable = no 
printable = yes 
printer admin = @admin 
 
[print$] 
comment = Printer Drivers Share 
path = /data/samba/drivers 
write list = root 
printer admin = root 
 
 
### Output from lpstat -a ###
oink:/usr/local/samba/lib # lpstat -a 
truss_hp4050 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00

### cups-generated printcap ###
oink:/data/samba # more /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
truss_hp4050|truss_hp4050:rm=oink:rp=truss_hp4050:

### permissions of Samba printer spool ###
oink:/data/samba # ls -ld spool
drwxrws---  3 root root 4096 Sep 22 14:19 spool

### Output of smbclient -L
oink:/data/samba # smbclient -L oink
Password:
Domain=[CORP1] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers Share
        software        Disk      Software for Samba computers
        oldhomes        Disk      Novell Home Directories
        DATA            Disk
        ENGR            Disk
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.7)
        ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.7)
        root            Disk      Home Directories



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