[Samba] Printing into ether

[Martin Zielinski]

On Thursday 15 May 2003 05:40, sentrum-lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I don't use CUPS but I'm sure you will still require a "print command = "
> in your global section?
>
No.
But you need "printcap name = cups". 
All this "... command = " lines are replaced by CUPS internals.
Make shure, that your samba supports cups (does "ldd smbd" show any libcups... 
line?)

Cheers
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Michael W. Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:46 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Printing into ether
>
>
> I'm having an odd problem. The system sees my printer, and from the local
> box I can print fine. I set it up in Samba and it shows up there as well.
> I can mount it from my WinXP laptop and it doesn't kick back any errors
> when I try to print.
>
> The problem is that the print job never actually gets printed. Nothing in
> the queue, no errors, just no printing. It's got to be something I have set
> wrong in the smb.conf file, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it
> is. Any help would be appreciated, anyone see what I'm doing
> wrong:
>
> # smb.conf
>
> [global]
> 	server string = File Server
> 	security = SHARE
> 	encrypt passwords = Yes
> 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> 	local master = No
> 	dns proxy = No
> 	hosts allow = 192.168.1.
> 	load printers = yes
> 	printing = cups
>
> [shared]
> 	path = /samba
> 	writeable = yes
> 	guest ok = Yes
>
> [printer]
>          comment = HP Photosmart 1115
>          path = /var/spool/samba
>          browseable = yes
>          public = yes
>          guest ok = yes
>          writable = no
>          printable = yes
>          printer admin = root
> 	 use client driver = yes

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