[Samba] RE: Samba and CUPS

[James Nallen]

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!

- Hi Kurt,

- Thanks for your response.

 > 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?

- I do have a TempDir of "/var/spool/cups/tmp". It's access rights are:
-
- [root at xxxxx tmp]# pwd
- /var/spool/cups/tmp
- [root at xxxxx tmp]# ls -al
- total 348
- drwx-----T    2 lp       sys          4096 Feb 17 18:14 .
- drwx------    3 lp       sys          4096 Feb 14 09:33 ..
-
-The directory "/etc/cups/ppd" contains the following:
-
- drwxr-xr-x    2 lp       sys          4096 Feb 14 09:33 .
- drwxr-xr-x    5 lp       sys          4096 Feb 14 09:33 ..
- -rw-r--r--    1 lp       sys         36606 Feb 14 09:33 ccsys4100.ppd
- -rw-r--r--    1 lp       sys         36606 Feb 14 09:23 HP4100.ppd
- -rw-r--r--    1 lp       sys         44495 Feb  6 11:10 libsys8500.ppd


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.