Strange behaviour related to NIS

Bill Moran wmoran at iowna.com
Tue May 8 18:57:47 GMT 2001


This may be a stupid question, but is there anything in the Samba log
files? Have you tried increasing the log/debug level?

-Bill

Scott Augustus wrote:
> 
> Update.
> 
> Sorry. This is a bit misleading.  What I've been able to find out is that
> Samba does recieve the job correctly, and puts it in the proper spool (path =
> /var/spool/samba).  However, once there, it is no longer processed.
> 
> I thought perhaps it was permissions but that front looks good.  I also tried
> specifying a "print command" in the conf.  To no avail.  The strangest thing
> about all this is how this could be related to NIS.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Tuesday 08 May 2001 09:35, I wrote:
> > Greetings folks,
> >
> > I've recently begun to experience very strange behaviour in relation to
> > Windows printing to samba print shares.  I'll try not to get too detailed
> > here but I've recently replaced our main YP server which was formerly
> > OpenBSD with a FreeBSD box.  I've got some OpenBSD boxes slaved into this
> > new FBSD box.
> >
> > Anyway.... since we've slaved the OBSD boxes into the FBSD box, samba
> > printing from Windows is now broken!?!  The samba logons, shares etc. all
> > appear to be working fine but the server appears to just completely ignore
> > Win print requests.  However, other boxes doing remote lpr style printing
> > (NT, HP/UX) are still able to print.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any insight as to what might be happening?
> >
> > TIA,
> 
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> Scott
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