[samba] two printers: one works ok in w9x/2k, other printer unavailable in Win98 BUT ok in w2k!

rruegner robowarp at gmx.de
Wed Nov 19 17:57:38 GMT 2003


Hi, you should first take a log on your cups ( or other print daemon) logs
to debug the problem
Best Regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelo" <eupec at supereva.it>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: [samba] two printers: one works ok in w9x/2k,other printer
unavailable in Win98 BUT ok in w2k!


> Hi all,
>         I try to explain my strange Samba problem: I've done a linuxbox
with
> Mandrake 8.2 distro; installed Samba 2.2 packages and two printers
attached
> via parallel port: one works with the motherboard built-in parallel port,
> the other is connected via a pci parallel port card. Both works fine on
> win2000 clients (and on the linuxbox, too :); on windows 98 clients, both
> printers are browseable in network neighborhood, but I'm able to install,
on
> the win98 boxes, ONLY one printer (and I can print fine using this
> printer:-) the other seems to be offline, but it's false, because I can
> print absolutely fine to it via w2k clients and linuxbox !
>
> The linux box is a member server in an AD domain with Windows 2000 server
as
> PDC, clients are windows 2000 professional, windows 9x (some old
machines),
> Windows XP Professional.
>
>
> Any help to understand the nature of this problem is greatly appreciated,
> I've searched with google in the newsgroups and searched in some mailing
> lists too, but it didn' help :(
>
> Angelo
>
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