Printing Problem with NT and Samba

[amit deshmukh]

Can anybody reply to this question  ?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, amit deshmukh wrote:

> 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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