[Samba] Printing Question

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Thu May 16 16:01:02 GMT 2002


Could it be the improper option -M is preventing lpr from running?
Joel

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:50:56PM -0400, amit deshmukh wrote:
> Can anybody help with this ? 
> 
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> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: amit deshmukh <adeshmuk at eng.utoledo.edu>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Printing Question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I am using Samba with LPRng. I have in my configuration
> 
> print command = /usr/local/lprng/current/bin/lpr -P%p %s -R%M
> 
> 	The permissions for lpr are -rwsr-xr-x. 
> 
> 	I am using samba as PDC. With this setup, when I login as a root
> in the domain, I can print properly. When I login as a normal user in the
> domain from an NT machine, I do not get any prints. The smbprn print spool
> file gets created in /servers/samba/printers folder (which is writable as
> required by samba printing docs). 
> 	When I looked into the samba log for a normal user, I do not see a
> call made to lpr (which I usually see when it is done from a root accnt).
> What I can conclude with this is that if there is any problem then it is
> to do with 'lpr' permissions. But, as mentioned earlier these permissions
> are enough for printing (a normal user can print from a unix machine
> directly)..
> 
> 	Can anybody help me with this ? 
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> rgds
> Amit
> 
> 
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