[Samba] Minor problem with CUPS printing.

Collins, Kevin KCollins at nesbittengineering.com
Thu Jul 17 21:28:09 GMT 2003


> Try printcap name = lpstat in the Global settings.
> 
> Karl-

Karl:

Tried that - no dice.

Anything else to try?

Kevin

> 
> 
>  >>  I've got a Red hat 8.0 machine running the latest 
> "up2date" version of
>  >>  Samba
>  >>  (2.2.7 with Red Hat's patches) acting as a print server 
> using CUPS.
> 
>  >>  The printing of documents is fine for the most part.  
> But I have noticed
>  >>  one
>  >>  thing that is really nothing more than an annoyance and 
> was wondering if
>  >>  anyone else has seen the problem and possibly a cure.
> 
>  >>  I have all Windows 2000 Pro clients, most of them have 
> all 5 printers that
>  >>  this server controls installed. (The drivers are locally 
> installed and not
>  >>  downloaded from the server - I'm still working on that.) 
>  All of the
>  >>  printers installed show up as they should and all of the 
> driver options
>  >>  are
>  >>  available.
> 
>  >>  But the "Printers" control panel applet keep reporting 
> these printers as
>  >>  "Access is denied, unable to connect" when you select 
> one of the printers.
>  >>  In addition when you double-click on the one of the 
> printers to see the
>  >>  "queue", nothing ever shows up and the same "Access is 
> denied, unable to
>  >>  connect" is displayed in the title bar of the dialogue box.
> 
>  >>  Since the print jobs are flowing, I'm not *too* 
> concerned about them, but
>  >>  I
>  >>  would like to remove this message and be able to the 
> print queues if that
>  >>  is
>  >>  possible.
> 
>  >>  --
>  >>  Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
>  >>  Systems Manager
>  >>  Nesbitt Engineering, Inc.
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