[Samba] smbclient & printing on win2k box with HP Deskjet 560C (Drivers?) SMB 2.2.3a - Kernel 2.4.7, red hat 7.2

[Joel Hammer]

I don't have a printer on a windows box to mess with, but:
I would GUESS this is a problem on the win2k box. I would look at the
permissions on your printer in windows. Maybe take password protection or
whatever off that share (make sure it is shared!) 

Since this might be a spooling error, look into permissions on the spool
directory in windows (if it has one!).  Aside from that, I don't have
much to offer about windows as a print server.

You could put this printer on your samba server, too, and point the win2k
box to this printer on your samba server. That's what I do and it works
fine for win98.

Postscript is a programming language some printers understand to put lines and
text on paper.  gs takes postscript files and turns them into formats which
can be displayed on other types of hardware, such as your X terminal, fax
machines, or nonpostscript printers. Support for postscript in windows is
weak unless you download third party software (some of it free.)
Joel





On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:09:14AM +1200, Diembo wrote:
> On Thu, 02 May 2002 00:13, you wrote:
> > You don't need samba to print, just smbclient. That is, you don't need to
> > be running a samba server.
> > Since you don't have much time and don't want to mess around with a lot of
> > stuff, here is the quick and dirty way. Assuming your printer is
> > postscript, just print your document in postscript format to a file.
> > Then,
> > smbclient -L Win2kServer
> > and see what the name of the printer share is.
> > Then:
> > smbclient //Win2kServer/PrinterShare
> >    Do the password stuff
> > print YourFile
> > quit
> >
> OK, good so far. I was already using samba for files etc. and was totally 
> content. Now I get an access problem:
> 
> smbclient //athlon/printer (passwd stuff)
> smb: \> print ./print.txt (or print.txt or even whole pathname)
> ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess (Invalid open mode.) opening remote file print.txt-2348
> 
> The file location of print.txt should be right (/home/<myuser>/print.txt & 
> lcd show that directory). Print --help tells me that it prints LOCAL files, 
> so that should be alright. I think this would be an user/passwd issue. But 
> for the files it works allright. And the printer runs exactly under the same 
> permissions, for the same user, with the same passwd. And printing with win2k 
> on my system works over the network, so I dont get why? You seem to be quite 
> knowledgable about this, so please tell me more. Thank you so much so far.
> 
> One more question: what does postscript do? What's it for? Should be basic, 
> but still, sometimes I fall over words which seem to be so obvious but dont 
> know what they mean ;-). Is postscript "easy" to install on my win2k box?
> 
> Tim
> 
> > You can make this one command with:
> > cat YourFile | smbclient //Win2kServer/PrinterShare PasswordStuff -c "
> > print -" If you leave out the PasswordStuff you will be prompted for it.
> > If you have to filter your job for your printer (ie. It doesn't know
> > postscript), then things get slightly more complicated.
> > You will have to find a gs device for your printer. Man gs.
> > Joel
> >
> > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:22:15PM +1200, Diembo wrote:
> > > Hi LUs,
> > >
> > > I dont have much time at the moment to read tons of documentation. So, I
> > > would like to ask a hopefully easy to answer question.
> > >
> > > Samba is running alright with me, smbclient works fine, but I would like
> > > to print from my Linux box over LAN to a printer (HP 560C) connected to a
> > > win2k box. Because I can't afford a better or second printer & I also
> > > havent got enough room for it really I would like to print my Linux-stuff
> > > over LAN.
> > >
> > > Anyway, how do I do that? I read a bit about smbclient and a printer
> > > script and that you need special drivers but I couldn't work it out so
> > > far. If anyone could give me an efficient solution for this I would be
> > > very greatful, because I am sick of booting windows every time I want to
> > > do an assignment and need to use a word processor. I would also like to
> > > use one of the KDE-word processors because the amount of choice is so
> > > much bigger.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > regards
> > > Tim
> > >
> > > PS: Is there anybody in this mailing list, by accident situated in
> > > Palmerston North (New Zealand) and knows about a local LUG?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Diembo working O Linux :-P
> > >
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