[Samba] Difficulty with Samba 2.2.8 and native CUPS PS driver s

[Brian Wiese]

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Thomas Urban [mailto:soletan at toxa.de]
|Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 3:49 AM
|To: samba at lists.samba.org
|Subject: [Samba] Difficulty with Samba 2.2.8 and native CUPS PS drivers
|
|
|Hi everyone,
| 
|yesterday I played a bit with configuring Samba 2.2.8a and CUPS 1.1.18
|to get Win2k Pro installing drivers automatically by downloading them
|from the server. First I had the same trouble about cupsaddsmb skipping
|my printer by posting "No PPD file for printer ..." or 
|similar. This was
|because of CUPS server being configured to avoid access to the server
|itself by the proper <Location>-tags in configuration file used Deny
|from ...
|The "Allow from 127.0.0.1" doesn't satisfy because the connection was
|made as "hostname" with the server's IP, and this one was blocked, so
|cupsaddsmb failed "silently".

So how specifically did you remedy this?  In cupsd.conf something like:

<Location>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow 127.0.0.1
Allow 192.168.2.*
Allow myhost
Deny From All
</Location>

If the localhost hostname == "myhost"?  I see "myhost" as source and
destination in ethereal loopback traffic, but it looks like it still
resolves to IP traffic to 127.0.0.1

I'd like to at least get here ... \/

|Then after this trouble was found I still was unable to download some
|drivers to windows. The client continued to say that the server doesn't
|have proper drivers for download and offered to install one locally. I
|tested another while without any success before I simply dropped the
|CUPS-PS driver files from CUPS subdirectory, so on next call cupsaddsmb
|would use the Adobe PS drivers instead to be installed into share
|print$. Afterward everything was fine and I could go to bed after some
|terrible hours of analysing ...
| 
| 
|Maybe this helps in your case, too.

Perhaps, I hope so!?
 
|Regards
|Thomas Urban

thanks, peace
Brian Wiese