[Samba] Doubts about sharing a winprinter

[Alfonso A.]

Now I used the default kernel with comes with Debian Woody and, when I run the lpadmin command, nothing happens. I got the same problem on Windows 2000. There was no way to configure the printer on GREENDEMON (With W2K installed) using the HP Laserjet IIP driver, but it prints using BLUEDEMON such as a printing server. I used the laserjet in GREENDEMON to send jobs to BLUEDEMON and everything worked.

I guess that I can act in a similar way using Debian, just using the laserjet driver to send jobs to the other computer so it automatically prints the job (as I see, Laserjet IIP is supported by CUPS).

What should I do to do this?

Thanks a lot Kurt.

On Tue, 27 May 2003 03:40:03 +0200
"Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote:

> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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