[Samba] RE: Samba and CUPS

[Kurt Pfeifle]

James Nallen wrote on Samba-Digest:

> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:07:09 +0000
> From: James Nallen <James.Nallen at may.ie>
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> Subject: [Samba] RE: Samba and CUPS
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> James Nallen wrote on Samba-Digest:Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:07:09 +0000
> From: James Nallen <James.Nallen at may.ie>
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> Subject: [Samba] RE: Samba and CUPS
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> James Nallen wrote on Samba-Digest:
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>  > 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'!

What was the exact "cupsaddsmb" you were using? From the "Warning"
message quoted I would guess you used

     "cupsaddsmb -v printer_name"
or
     "cupsaddsmb -v -a"

Either you don't have a printer with the name 'printer_name' at all,
or this printer (named via the "-a" for "all" paramenter) is a "raw"
printer and thusly doesn't have a PPD associated with it.

> 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

OK -- this means that your printer 'printer_name' is a "raw" printer
(if it exists at all).

What result do you get with

    "cupsaddsmb -v ccsys4100"

???

> 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.