[Samba] samba+cups failure - no printers in the share list

[LÉVAI Dániel]

Martin Zielinski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Self compiled Samba?
> Does "ldd smbd" has a link to libcups?
> If you have a smbd that is linked to libcups and cups is running, it 
> will work!
> 
> Only reason why it wouldn't could be access rights in your cups 
> configuration.
> 
> After you verified, that libcups is used, it might be a good idea to 
> increase the log level of samba and cups and examine the logfiles. They 
> might contain the information you need.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Martin

Thanks Martin for the tips.
While checking cups' logs, it showed me the infamous "Unsupported 
character set" error, and after reading the bug reports regarding this, 
I've converted the server to use utf8. Now samba can get the printers 
from cups.

Daniel

> 
> 
> LÉVAI Dániel schrieb:
>> LÉVAI Dániel wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It seems my samba and cups won't communicate with each other. I've 
>>> configured samba to load the printers from cups:
>>> load printers = yes
>>> printing = cups
>>> printcap name = cups
>>>
>>> [printers]
>>>         comment = All Printers
>>>         path = /var/spool/samba
>>>         printable = yes
>>>         public = no
>>>         read only = yes
>>>         create mode = 0700
>>>         valid users = @digiszfv
>>>         printer admin = daniell
>>>
>>> # lpstat -t
>>> scheduler is running
>>> no system default destination
>>> device for hp_lj_p2015n: socket://192.168.1.66
>>> hp_lj_p2015n accepting requests since 2008. okt. 10., p?ek, 08.49.44 
>>> CEST
>>> printer hp_lj_p2015n is idle.  enabled since 2008. okt. 10., p?ek, 
>>> 08.49.44 CEST
>>>
>>> Despite all this, samba fails to advertise the printer:
>>> # smbclient -U daniell -L FILESERVER
>>> Enter daniell's password:
>>> Domain=[DIGISZFV] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.3]
>>>
>>>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>>>         ---------       ----      -------
>>>         print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
>>>         ugyfelszolgalat Disk      Ugyfélszolgálat
>>>         adminisztrator  Disk      Adminisztrátorok
>>>         optikus         Disk      Szemészet
>>>         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba (fileserver))
>>>         daniell         Disk      Home Directories
>>> Domain=[DIGISZFV] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.3]
>>>
>>> What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated.
>> What this post is missing is some more info I think.
>> Samba is 3.2.3
>> Cups is 1.3.8
>> OS is a Debian testing
>> Kernel is linux kernel 2.6.24
>>
>> The printers doesn't show on Linux nor on Win.
>> On the Cups www admin page, I can print out a test page, so the 
>> printer is usable.
>> The problem is with the link between cups and samba. Can't seem to 
>> figure or find out what is it, though.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Daniel
>>

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LEVAI Daniel
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