[Samba] Printing W2K net use lpt Fixed

[James Hubbard]

Upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.6rc4 seems to have fixed this problem.

James Hubbard


James Hubbard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a problem with printing on a Windows 2K box.  Printing from 
> that box to a samba server via the normal print mechanism works fine. 
> The problem is when the person needs to print to a lpt port.  The 
> capture succeeds, but when the file is copied to lpt2 it never gets 
> printed.
> 
> There are other machines that can do the capture and copy to the lpt 
> port but they are Win 9x.  The files being copied are plot files 
> generated by a cad program.
> 
> I noticed in the How-To that using enumports might be needed to make 
> using lpt ports work. It's not working though and I'm still getting the 
> same error message.  I've just started using disable spoolss = yes but 
> that doesn't seem to help either.
> 
> All relevant information is below. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> James Hubbard
> 
> 
> 
> This is the command being used to capture the port.
> net use lpt2: \\server-bristol\hp450c
> 
> Samba version 2.2.5
> RedHat 7.2
> Windows 2K with the latest service packs.
> 
> smb.conf
> [global]
> ......
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    enumports command=/home/samba/ports.sh
>    disable spoolss = yes
>    printing = lprng
> 
> ...
>    security = share
> 
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
>    public = yes
>    use client driver = yes
> 
> This is the error messages that I'm getting in the log file for that 
> machine.
> 
> [2002/10/15 14:27:22, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 28282 (2.2.5)
>   Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
> [2002/10/15 14:27:22, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
>   ===============================================================
> [2002/10/15 14:27:22, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1092)
>   PANIC: internal error
> [2002/10/15 14:27:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(38)
>   ===============================================================
> [2002/10/15 14:27:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 28631 (2.2.5)
>   Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
> [2002/10/15 14:27:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
>   ===============================================================
> [2002/10/15 14:27:26, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1092)
>   PANIC: internal error
>