Can't print

[Joel Hammer]

I am not sure why this is happening but I would try:
1. Make your print command:
echo %s %p > /var/spool/samba
You might have to remove the write parameter.
2. Make log level = 3 and look at what is going on.
If the printing is working, you should see the print job in your spool after
"printing" is done.
I cannot comment on your print command, since I use lprng.

Joel

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:55:44PM -0400, Eric Evans wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just recently set up samba for the first time in our lab, and the file 
> sharing is working fine but unfortunately I can't get the network printing 
> to work.  I'm sure there must be some minor detail that I am overlooking 
> but I just can't see it.  I've set up a PC to print to the network printer 
> \\PLEIADES\hp_1, where PLEIADES is our samba server.  I can verify that 
> when I try to print from the PC, it does indeed execute the command that 
> I've specified in my "print command" in smb.conf.  The problem is that the 
> file to be printed never shows up in the spooling directory, and so lp 
> complains that it can't find the file.  The spooling directory has 
> permissions set so that anybody can write to it.  So why is the file not 
> getting from the PC to the spooling directory on the server?  The samba log 
> file shows no error messages.
> 
> One thing I noticed that bothers me: The Using Samba book by Eckstein et al 
> says that the value of %s is the full pathname of the file to be 
> printed.  But when I check the actual value of %s being used in our print 
> tests, it is not a full pathname.  It only contains the name of the actual 
> file and omits the path of the file.  Why is this?  Is Eckstein wrong, or 
> is there some configuration option that is preventing the full pathnames 
> from being used (listing of smb.conf is at the end of this message)?
> 
> If anybody has any suggestions about how to fix this problem, I would 
> greatly appreciate hearing them.
> 
> Thanks very much....
> Eric Evans, Cornell Phonetics Lab
> 
> [global]
>          workgroup = Plab
>          socket address = 128.253.71.27
>          socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>          invalid users = root bin daemon adm sync shutdown halt mail news uucp
>          hosts deny = ALL EXCEPT localhost 128.253.71.
>          max log size = 100
>          security = user
>          encrypt passwords = yes
> 
>          print command = /bin/lp -d%p -s %s
>          printer = hp_1
>          printing = SYSV
> 
> [homes]
>          browseable = no
>          read only = no
>          writeable = yes
>          guest ok = no
> 
> [printers]
>          path = /var/spool/samba
>          printable = yes
>          writeable = no
>          read only = yes
>          postscript = yes
> 
> 
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