Printing problem

[Jean Francois Micouleau]

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Christopher Odenbach wrote:

> I have problems with printing via samba. We are running the latest
> CVS Version (2.1.0 prealpha) as a PDC, I can log into the NT box, my
> unix home is accessable. But when I try to install a (shared) printer
> the printer browse list very often hangs and I have to kill and restart
> the explorer. Even when the browse list suddenly appears I cannot install
> the printer, I get an 'unknown error'.

That's the new NT printing code of the HEAD branch.

> When I put the debug level up to 10 I could see that smbd tried to look
> for a file named "/usr/samba/lib/NTprinter_ps". Now this is new!
> 
> What is this file for, who has to create it? If it's me, what has to go
> in there?

that's the printer definition file for the shared printer named 'ps'. You
can fill it yourself or have an NT machine fill it for you (much easier).

This new printing code is not functionnal right now, some functions are
missing.

	J.F.