[Samba] Doubts about sharing a winprinter

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote.... some rubbish in a previous mail:

> Alfonso A. webmaster at open-code.net wrote on Samba-Digest

Sorry, Alfonso,

I did not realize earlier: I had a typo in one of my previoud mails.
The device URI must not be parallel:/dev/null but *parallel:/dev/lp0*

So the complete command should read:

   GREENDEMON:~# lpadmin -p sscript610 -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -E -m laserjet.ppd

or

   GREENDEMON:~# lpadmin -p sscript610 -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/laserjet.ppd


>> Mon May 26 21:40:49 GMT 2003
>>
>>
>> With the NEC Silentwriter Supercript 610 printer hooked in my Debian 
>> box, I get this error:
>>
>> GREENDEMON:~# lpadmin -p sscript610 -v parallel:/dev/null -E -m 
>> laserjet.ppd
>> lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
> 
> 
> It means the lpadmin command couldn't find the parallel port. CUPS lists 
> all
> "devices" it can use, if you submit the "lpinfo -v" command:
> 
>    lpinfo -v
>    lpinfo -v | grep parallel
> 
> You can also start the parallel backend with no additional arguments. Then
> you should see this:
> 
>   kde-bitshop:~> /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
>   direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "Unknown" "Parallel Port #1"
> 
> CUPS does the same at each startup (run all backends once with no 
> arguments).
> This provides the basis to know what device-URIs are available. If the 
> parallel
> port was not available when cupsd started, you can't install a printer 
> on it.
> 
> 
>> I don't know if the list of modules that I have loaded will help quite 
>> much, but here they are:
>>
>> GREENDEMON:~# lsmod
>> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
>> gamecon                 5512   0  (unused)
>> joydev                  6752   0  (unused)
>> lp                      6048   0  (autoclean)
>> agpgart                26720   3  (autoclean)
>> nvidia               1467712  10  (autoclean)
>> parport_pc             14984   1  (autoclean)
>> parport                13824   1  [gamecon lp parport_pc]
>> mod_quickcam           39524   0  (unused)
>> uhci                   24552   0  (unused)
>> usbcore                61600   0  [mod_quickcam uhci]
>> ide-scsi                7456   0 via82cxxx_audio        17824   0 
>> es1371                 26752   0 soundcore               3492   6  
>> [via82cxxx_audio es1371]
>> ac97_codec             10048   0  [via82cxxx_audio es1371]
>> gameport                1452   0  [es1371]
>> 3c59x                  25096   1 input                   3296   0  
>> [gamecon joydev]
> 
> 
> Did you try "insmod printer", "lsmod | grep printer", re-start cupsd,
> and try "lpinfo -v | grep parallel" again?
> 
> 
>