Printing woes

thing thing at thing.dyndns.org
Mon Jan 14 23:36:02 GMT 2002


funny but, this looks an identical problem to mine, so we may have a
samba bug or a common mis-configuration 

which version of samba? kernel? linux distro?

regards

Thing



Hactar wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I'm trying to print from Windows 2000, one in VMware (a virtual
> machine), and one real.  Each has its own IP address on my local subnet,
> so in that respect, they're real machines.  I have two printers available
> - a DeskJet 1200C/PS, which is connected to the local network, on which it
> speaks Appletalk (it sounds weird, but it works from the prompt; lpr ->
> netatalk -> printer); and a DeskJet 870Cxi, which is on /dev/lp0.
> 
> The machine in VMware can see my Linux box and transfer files.  From it, I
> get a message "Access denied, unable to connect" in the title bar of the
> 870 when I open the spooling window.
> 
> The 1200 works, if I print to a file, then from Linux, "lpr
> print-job.prn".  "copy windows-file \\pc\prismatic" causes the message
> [2002/01/14 14:31:10, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(606)
>   pc-in-w2k (192.168.1.21) connect to service prismatic as user eben (uid=500, gid=500) (pid 28676)
> but no output.
> 
> The real machine cannot see my box at all, nor can I see him.  That seems
> like a browsing issue.  If I could see him, he has yet another printer...
> but I'll deal with that when I come to it.
> 
> Does anybody have a clue as to what might be wrong?  Thanks.
> 
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