printing from unix to NT printer

[Christian Barth]

> Setup:
> samba 2.2.2
> Solaris 8
> 
> Trying to print to a printer attached to an NT4/sp6a machine. Printer passes 'test print page' test on NT and is shared. 
> 
> Problem: 
> An error occurs when the smbclient command is used: 
> 
> cat afile | smbclient \\\\tech223\\testprn -U username%password -P -c "translate;print -"
> 
> The error reported is "ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess (Invalid open mode.) opening remote file stdin-...."
> 
> Similarly, if I run the smbclient command interactively and type "print afile", the same error occurs this time referring to 'remote file afile'. 
> 
> Any help with this problem would be appreciated. I've searched the list archives and have not (so far)  found anything which addresses this issue.
> 
Sorry, I can't help you there, but I have a very similar problem:
The above commands are working for me from samba 2.0.7 to NT4SP6a but 
not to w2k, no matter if from 2.0.7 or 2.2.1a. I supect some thing on 
the Windows side, because disk shares work.

Christian

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