Printing Problem with NT and Samba

[amit deshmukh]

Hi,

      My network has samba 2.2.2 installed on Sun with lprng and NT 4.0
workstations.
      Samba acts as PDC for these workstations. I am using priting through
samba. I am using 'disable spoolss = yes' option which means the drivers
are on installed on client side and are not downloaded from the server. So
all these printers (on Samba) act as Local printers on NT machines. As I
am configuring these printers in Administrator login of NT, all other
users on NT machine also see these printers. 
      Now the problem is these users can see the printer queue (which is
done through lpq) with no error and they can also fire the print jobs.
But, the jobs never get printed. Instead these jobs are seen in samba
spool directory (specified by 'path' under each printer share). I cannot
see any jobs with 'lpstat' command on sun machine. So, job never reaches
lprng's lpd daemon. 
      Another interesting thing is, if I login on NT machine as a
'root' in the domain, then I can print the jobs. Further, once I print a
job with this root login, I can print the jobs with any other user in the
domain from that NT machine. This thing works till the time I restart the
NT machine. Once I restart the NT machine, then it's the same again.
      I don't know where the problem is. It's with NT registry or samba
setup ? Can somebody help me with this ? 

* I still have some entries for printer drivers evenif they do not mean
anything. I also have tried removing them. But it doesn't help.
* My users do not have any administrative privileges on NT machine. is
this causing any problem ? 

My smb.conf excerpts for printing stuff are

[global]
print command = /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s
-R%M
lpq command = /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/bin/lpq -L -P%p
lprm command = /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/bin/lprm -P%p %j
lppause command = /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/sbin/lpc hold
-P%p %j
lpresume command =   /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/sbin/lpc release
-P%p %j
queuepause command = /var/tmp/amit/servers/lprng/current/sbin/lpc -P%p 
stop

[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/tmp/amit/servers/samba/printers
   public = yes
   read only = no
   browseable = yes
    printable = yes
    writable = yes
   hosts allow = 131.183.

[myBlj1013]
   comment = LPRNG printer in ni
   path = /var/tmp/amit/servers/samba/current/printers
   printer driver = HP CLJ 8500 - PS
   printer driver location = /var/tmp/amit/servers/samba/private/drivers
   browseable = yes
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
    writable = yes
   hosts allow = 131.183.

[mylj1026]
   comment = LPRNG printer in ni1
   path = /var/tmp/amit/servers/samba/current/printers
   printer driver = HP LaserJet 5Si/5Si MX PS
   printer driver location = /var/tmp/amit/servers/samba/private/drivers
   browseable = yes
    writable = yes
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   create mode = 0700
   hosts allow = 131.183.


thanks
Amit
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Amit Deshmukh
Graduate Student (EECS)
University of Toledo.

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