[Samba] printing with lprng

[Justin Wood]

I just checked the lprng spool directory.  The jobs aren't in there,
and there is no relevant information in the log files.

Sorry, I meant command line tools like lpr, not smbclient.

-Justin.

--- Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:
> Have you checked your lprng spool directory? /var/spool/ldp/%p ?
> Maybe your jobs are sitting there.  This is often a print filter
> problem.
> Depending on the printer, when you send an improperly formatted print
> job, it may have fits or it may just ignore it. Have you checked the
> log
> file in the lprng spool directory?
> When you say command line tools, do you mean lpr or do you mean:
> smbclient -L etc.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 02:57:51PM -0800, Justin Wood wrote:
> > I recently set up samba-2.2.3a on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE.  I'm having
> > troubles getting printing to work.  I have LPRng-3.76 installed,
> and it
> > works just fine using the command line tools.  When I print from a
> > windows client over smb, however, I can see the job go into the
> spool
> > directory, but then it magically vanishes, with nothing in any log
> > files.  Has anyone experienced this type of strange behavior?
> > 
> >    print command = /usr/local/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s <---NO MAGIC. YOU
> ERASE IT


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