[Samba] CUPs and Samba and XP

[hans at sbsfor.com]

Thanks for the reply.  The Samba server is setup as a PDC, and my computers
and users authenticat to it properly.  I don't have the XP firewall running
on any machine.  Printing is great, controlling printing is the problem for
me.  I'll set my logging to 10 in a little while and post back to the group
the log as Jerry suggested.

Thanks

Hans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne at cae.co.za>
To: <hans at sbsfor.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] CUPs and Samba and XP


> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:06:53 -0800
> > From: <hans at sbsfor.com>
> > To: "Samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Subject: [Samba] CUPs and Samba and XP
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> > Hullo All.
> >
> > The preamble....  Samba 2.2.7a compiled against CUPS, CUPs v 1.1.6
(version
> > that came with Mandrake 9.0), using client side drivers (raw printing)
on
> > XP.
> >
> > Printing works, cancelling jobs via the web interface works after the
> > spooling is done.  What doesn't work.  Pausing jobs (though that's not
as
> > important as the next trouble) and cancelling jobs from XP.
>
> Note that you can't really have user control of print jobs unless the
> user is authenticating to the server, and you haven't given any detail
> on how you are setup. Easiest way to tell on a default installation is
> if you see a share on the server with the username you are logged into
> windows with. If you don't, you're either going to have to add unix
> accounts (if they don't exist) which match the windows user names (or
> use a username map) and set their smbpasswd (smbpasswd -a <user>) or
> provide more info on how your authentication is setup.
>
> This works fine here, using the samba-2.2.7a-3mdk RPMs available at
> http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/samba on mandrake 8.0-9.0.
>
> > If I cancel a
> > job by hitting the cancel button on a windows print dialogue, the
program
> > freezes until I manually restart the XP print spooler service.  If I
cancel
> > a job by hitting cancel in the print spooler window, the job does get
> > cancelled (it disappears from the spooler window), but the same problem,
the
> > program freezes until I manually restart the spooler.  Anybody seen this
> > before.   I didn't have this trouble when I was using lpd, just recently
> > with cups.  One other side issue, i always have to manually refresh the
> > spooler screen (F5) to see current activity.  Is there a setting that
I'm
> > missing that will do that for me.
> >
>
> Printing to samba also doens't work that well if you have the XP
> firewall enabled, which be default firewalls off 137-139, preventing
> samba from being able to send a reply. This also affects printers on
> Windows NT servers.
>
> > Thanks for any and all help.
> >
> > Hans Rasmussen
> > Drafting/GIS Coordinator
>
> FYI, grass-5.0.0 is in Mandrake 9.0 contribs if that would interest you
...
>
> Buchan
>
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