[Samba] Samba and CUPS

[Kurt Pfeifle]

James Nallen wrote on Samba-Digest:

> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:23:10 +0000
> From: James Nallen <James.Nallen at may.ie>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Samba and CUPS
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> I have Samba version 2.2.7a and CUPS version 1.1.15.

Hi, James!

> I have been unable to successfully use the 'cupsaddsmb' utility.
> Any time I execute this utility, I get the following error:
> 
> Warning - No PPD file found for 'printer_name'!

So -- *is* there a PPD associated to the printer-in-question? It
should be in "/etc/cups/ppd/printer-in-question.ppd...

> The printer is question has been configured in CUPS and it is visible when 
> browsing from a Windows client.
> 
> Where is it looking for these PPD files? Is it /etc/cups/ppd?

Yes.

But then, in a second step, cupsaddsmb is retrieving a copy of
it (using an IPP call) from there and temporarily storing it in
the CUPS spool directory, sub directory "tmp" under a weird
name:

   /var/spool/cups/tmp/3cd1cc66376c0

Do you have a "tmp" in "/var/spool/cups/" (or whatever is
dafined to be the CUPS spool dir -- see the "TempDir" directive
in cupsd.conf) ?  What are the access rights?

If cupsaddsmb can't store the PPD in the "TempDir", it could
lead to the error message you are seeing...

After the PPD is in cupsd's "TempDir", cupsaddsmb makes a
smbclient connection to the Samba server's [print$] share to
"put" it there (alongside the rest of the needed PostScript
driver files).

Cheers,
Kurt

> Could it be 
> that it does not recognize the PPD files for some reason?
> 
> Also, could someone further develop
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James Nallen,
> Systems Progrmmer,
> NUI Maynooth,
> Maynooth,
> Co. Kildare,
> Ireland.