samba printing help pls :)

thing thing at thing.dyndns.org
Mon Jan 14 00:14:07 GMT 2002


just put the printer on one NT box and printed locally fine, then did a
remote print from the other NT box, works fine.

Suggests a samba issue to me

Steven

thing wrote:
> 
> [global]
> printing = bsd
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> oad printers = yes
> guest account = nobody
> invalid users = root
> 
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> browseable = no
> print ok = yes
> path = /tmp
> printable = yes
> printer = lp_text
> public = yes
> writable = no
> create mode = 0700
> 
> Im trying to print from NT4 SP6a to Linux Debian 2.2, kernel
> 2.4.17-686-smp samba 2.0.7-3.4 (stock potato)
> 
> The setup used to work until this weekend when i rebuilt the linux box
> with a new hd and re-installed.
> 
> The kernel is upgraded from 2.4.9 but otherwise same version of samba
> and debian.
> 
> problem is I cannot print a test page or a .txt or a .doc from either of
> 2 NT4 workstation boxes using word,
> wordpad, notepad or test page button.
> 
> This command works fine,
> 
> copy dos.txt \\kascha\lp_text
> 
> as does
> 
> echo hello > \\kascha\lp_text
> 
> linux printing like
> 
> lpr /etc/printcap works fine
> 
> ive exhausted my samba books....
> 
> :/
> 
> [home] shares work fine on the linux box
> 
> so im stumped dead...
> 
> any ideas pls?
> 
> ta
> 
> Steven
> 
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