[Samba] printing setup

[Van Sickler, Jim]

I agree with Joel about your print path.

Samba notes:

(OpenBSD 3.1, LPRng 3.8.12, samba-2.2.5
with parsing fix for spoolss & samba-2.2.5 installed)
 
You need two paths for spooling, generally:

one for the print daemon (LPRng, CUPS, lpr, etc)
  /var/spool/lpd/%p  (%p being the printer name)
  dir is 700, files 600
  dir owned by root.wheel or similar
  files owned by daemon.daemon
  
one for samba
  /var/spool/samba/%p (e.g. hp4plus)
  dir/files are 777
  owned by root.daemon
  path=/var/spool/samba/hp4plus

Example for hp4plus;  using locally installed driver:

[HP4Plus]
        comment = HP4Plus by Graphics PC
        path = /var/spool/samba/hp4plus
        writeable = no
        printable = Yes
        printer = hp4plus
        use client driver = yes


[print$] notes:
dirs/files are 744 (maybe 644), owned by root.wheel

Example for [print$] share for drivers:

[print$]
        path = /eodc/printers
        read only = yes
        browseable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        write list = vansickj, @wheel

Hope this helps,
Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:20 PM
> To: Jon L. Miller; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] printing setup
> 
> 
> Who is specified as the guest account in your smb.conf ?
> I don't like the looks of your path parameter. Maybe your 
> guest user cannot
> access it.
> Usually, the path is somewhere anybody can write to, like /tmp.
> That path you have should only be seen by the print daemon.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:29:16PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> > I have the following in my /etc/samba/smb.conf, yet i still 
> cannot print
> > from a Windows desktop client.  I can see the printer and it goes
> > through the motions of setting up the printer, it just 
> doesn't print. 
> > It gives an error message about the network name cannot be 
> found.  Yet
> > if I browse thru network neighborhood I can see the 
> printer.  What I see
> > thouh is a name for the printer called Laserjet.
> > 
> > [printers]
> >    ; printer driver = HP LaseJet5L
> >    comment = HP Printer
> >    path = /var/spool/lpd/hp5l
> >    browseable = yes
> > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
> >    guest ok = yes
> >    public = yes
> >    writable = no
> >    create mode = 0711
> >    printable = yes
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
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