[Samba] Adding Printer

[nmennell at intellinetcorp.com]

Everyone,

Thanks for the response.

I am using RedHat 7.2, SAMBA 2.2.5

Here is what we are trying to do and the situation that results:

I have two (2) endusers with HP laptop PC that spend 3 days out of 5 in the
office. They have to connect over our internal network to a Ricoh Aficio
printer.
The endusers were added to the appropriate directories and we had tested
thoroughly with users.... the ones in office. We are also using a LEXMARK
printer without any problems. As a matter of fact, the 2 that cannot print
to the Ricoh, can print to the Lexmark.

When I choose from the Windows Desktop, <start>, <settings>, <printers>, I
follow the path to <add printer>, <select Ricoh>, <Aficio 401>

Everything works without incident so far. It appears all is set up
correctly. When I send a test print to the printer, I get nothing.

I delete the printer and proceed another route to install printer.

I go to <start>, <run>, <\\n.n.n.n/ricoh>

I get a message that says:

Before you can use printer "\\n.n.n.n/ricoh" it must be set up on your
computer. Do you want Windows to set up the printer and continue this
operation?

<yes>

The server on which the printer resides does not have the exact printer
driver installed. If you want to install the driver on your computer click
OK.

<OK>

Connecting to ricoh on \\n.n.n.n

{ swishing flashlight }

Complete operation through the Printer Wizard.

at completion, I get

Access denied, unable to connect


I have checked various log files and I do not see anything that jumps out
as an error?


Any assistance is greatly appreciated.


Nicholas E. Mennell, CCNA
Manager, Operations
IntelliNet Corporation
Room 302
26380 Curtiss Wright Parkway
nmennell at intellinetcorp.com
ph: (216) 289-4100


                                                                                                                                       
                      daniel.jarboe at cus                                                                                                
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                      11/05/2002 09:47         Subject:  Re: [Samba] Adding Printer                                                    
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By the "sequence to add printer", do you mean
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#PRINTING ?

What do you mean by can't print?  Access denied?  Gobbeldy-gook?
Nothing happens?

Is there anything of interest in samba's logs?  In RH installed from RPM
they should be in /var/log/samba.  What version of samba are you
running?  2.2.6 has fixed a lot of print bugs.

~ Daniel

nmennell at intellinetcorp.com wrote:

> We are a very small company and moved from WinTel environment to Linux.
> Killed the WinTel file/print server and implemented SAMBA om Red Hat 7.2.
>
> I have some users that need to print to a RICOH Aficio 4106 printer. When
I
> go through the sequence to add printer ...... it appears to install, but
> the people cannot print.
>
> Can anyone walk me through steps as I am novice...... and I do not want
to
> go back to windows file/print share.
>
> Nicholas E. Mennell, CCNA
> Manager, Operations
> IntelliNet Corporation
> Room 302
> 26380 Curtiss Wright Parkway
> nmennell at intellinetcorp.com
> ph: (216) 289-4100
>
>
>