[Samba] Clients can find printer when

Sun Jun 6 04:41:05 GMT 2004

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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