Printing Problem

Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata barroca at dcc.ufmg.br
Tue Oct 30 07:54:03 GMT 2001


maybe, the lp server is starting after the samba server, and the priter
couldn't be found.
Check this
Leonardo

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, David Gregory wrote:

> Got a slight problem with printing from WindowsXP to my Mandrake 8.0
> server running Samba 2.2.1a.
> 
> Samba is configured for file/print services on my home lan and is
> configured to start when the server boots. The weird thing is that when
> the pcs come onto the lan they map their appropriate network shares no
> problem, but, the connection to the printer is not there. What makes
> this even stranger is that I know samba is configured properly cause a
> simple stop/start of samba makes the problem go away. My question is why
> does the printer not get advertised when the samba server originally
> boots when the network file shares do?
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> David.
> 





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