[Samba] Win95 & Win98 - NOT WORKING - NT,2000, XP are ok (reposted)

[peter.a.bryant at mainroads.qld.gov.au]

Hey, thanks for your efforts anyway.

I don't know what to make of this.
Obviously a lot of things have changed between Samba 2.0.6 and 2.2.7a,
but I can't figure out why Win95 & 98 suddenly can't print.
I think you may be right - something to do with the new Samba using the
MS-RPCs...
which I imagine would mean a completely different printing method.
Do you think this would require a different printer driver on the 95/98 boxes??
>From what I read, I had the impression that it should all still work.

     I'd like to hear from anyone if they are successfully printing from Win95,
Win98 clients
     on a   Solaris server and using HP printers.

I'm sure many people must be successfully printing from 95/98, but maybe this
problem
is specific to my particular environment ?

I am contemplating your suggestion about the bug message.
Maybe another day or so of frustration and I will try it.

again - thanks muchly for your help.

-peter.

>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:33:35 +0100
>From: "maraqas" <maraqas at libero.it>
>
>Hi Peter,
>    i had a long, frunstrating web surfing yesterday night, searching for
>something
>that could apply to your case. I didn't find much at all, sorry. The only
>thing
>perhaps interesting to you could be this:
>http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/printer_driver2.html
>This doc contains a section about migrating from 2.0.x to 2.2.x
>I think the problem lyes in the new way samba manages printing, that is
>by listening the MS-RPCs (Remote Procedure Call) coming from the
>winNT and win2000 clients. This is done thanks to spoolss, as i figured
>out reading here and there across the net. Well they say spoolss supports
>even win9x driver calls, even if those OSes do not actually make an RPC.
>They also say that backward compat. is reached through "use client driver"
>and "spoolss disable". With these options enabled, the samba server should
>act just like it was a 2.0.x
>I think you'd need help from the samba guys themselves, so i advice
>reposting this problem with a more shocking subject line (suggest to
>use the keyword BUG :)) so you'll be able to capture their attention.
>
>Really sorry not to have been useful to you...
>
>cheers
>
>Maq

>>Sorry to have to repost this (didn't get any response on the first post),
>>we really need some of the fixes of the new Samba but cannot go ahead without
the support for the older machines.
>>Need to prove that Samba is the great product that I believe it is.
>>
>>Hi folks - I am having printing problems with our older machines.
>>
>>Printing is working fine for our Windows NT, 2000 and XP clients.
>>However, with windows 95 & 98, the print job gets put into the Samba
>>spool directory (path = /var/spool/lp/tmp/samba)  but doesn't make it to the
printer.
>>The print files stay there in the directory - don't get removed.
>>
>>Samba version is 2.2.7a,  on Solaris 8
>>Printers are HP printers - e.g. HP 8100dn
>>
>>All clients including 95/98 were happily printing on a very much older version
of Samba (2.0.6)
>>
>>printing directly from Unix to the printer is working ok
>>
>>Has anyone experienced this problem or have any advice on how to
>>get my older boxes printing with the latest Samba?
>>
>>any thoughts welcome - no really - anything - please....
>>:-)
>>
>>-peter.
>>
>>
>>(p.s. Just for a wild stab in the dark I tried setting the "disable spoolss =
yes"
>>but this stopped all printing from making it to the computer - even from the
clients that
>>were originally working.)
>>
>>
>>relevant bits of conf. file included below...
>>note that I don't have print command explicitly stated, but testparm
>>indicates that it is configured properly...
>>
>>[global]
>>  printing = sysv
                                                                                                                        
>> lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j
>> lppause command = lp -i %p-%j -H hold
>> lpresume command = lp -i %p-%j -H resume
>> load printers = no
>>
>>[hp8100DN1]
>> printer = hp8100dn_1
>>comment = HP LaserJet hp8100 DN
>>path = /var/spool/lp/tmp/samba
>>guest account = nobody
>>guest ok = yes
>>browseable = yes
>>printable = yes
>>writable = yes





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