[Samba] Samba, CUPs & Win2000 printing

[jason at macservice.com.au]

...done some more investigating on the Win2000 - Samba/CUPS print problem 
I posted earlier. As I said before, everything works fine using Samba as 
PDC with Win2000 client on a test network except for printing to this 
printer. I can print to this printer from the Linux machine through X ok.

If I try an

#echo "^MHello World^L" | smbclient "//sambaserver/printername"

...from a shell on the Linux/Samba machine I get:

tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

I have verified that I am using the correct case when when typing the 
share names as I've heard that smbclient is case sensitive. If I try from 
the DOS prompt on the Win2000 client (echo Hello^L > 
\\sambaserver\printername) I get "The network path was not found" but I 
can ping the Samba server using the machine name from the Win2000 client?

If I do an:

#smbclient -L //sambaserver -Uusername

The printer share name appears in the list?

I also tried adding the printer to the Win2000 client using 
"http://sambaserver:631/printers/printername" but I then get  a message:

"Could not connect to printer. Access denied"

Are there any other tests I can do to narrow down where the problem could 
be? I've spent days trying to figure this out and havent really managed to 
get anywhere?

..I apologise once again for my basic Linux knowledge at the moment - I'm 
getting there.

Jase

"Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad at langhorst.com> wrote on 01/03/2003 01:27:56 
AM:

> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 23:35, jason at macservice.com.au wrote:
> > I'm very new to Linux and Samba so bear with me - I am migrating our 
> 
> >         printcap name = cups
> ...
> >         printing = cups
> i think this is all you need...
> 
> > 
> > [printers]
> >         comment = All Printers
> >         path = /var/spool/samba
> >         printer admin = root
> >         guest ok = Yes
> >         printable = Yes
> >         print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s
> >         lpq command = lpstat -o %p
> >         lprm command = cancel %p-%j
> >         use client driver = Yes
> >         browseable = No
> here's my printers share
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
> 
> I also use driver downloading with at print$ share 
> but worry about that after you get basic printing working...
> 
> best wishes!
> 
> brad
> > 
> > PS. anyone use HP Web Jetadmin software on Linux?
> i think there are some oss tools that can do some port 9100
> adminstration...
> -- 
> Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>
>