[Samba] Samba Printing

[John H Terpstra]

Mike,

Have you uncommented the last line? The one with:

application/octet-stream

in both:
	/etc/cups/mime.convs
	/etc/cups/mime.types

The symptoms you report sound like these entries are commented out.

- John T.


On Thursday 26 August 2004 13:11, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Doug,
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:39:04AM -0400, Douglas Sterner wrote:
> > Using Samba 3.05 and cups I'm having some trouble getting documents to
> > print thru CUPS in raw mode. Documents print fine from the server but not
> > from an XP client. When I used  the following print
> > command statement for troubleshooting the job is getting to the Samba
> > server spool directory for that printer. The CUPS admin page never sees
> > the job and no errors are given. Everything looks like it has printed
> > just nothing comes out of the printer. When I print a test page from the
> > server it prints and the job shows up in cups.
>
> 	I've been having a similar problem.  I had been able to print
> with Samba 3.0.2a but something changed in 3.0.3 and after and I've
> been unable to print from a Windows client with any version since.
> There's an open bug, 1464, in Bugzilla, posted by someone else, describing
> a similar problem.  I've gotten traces and logs up for some of the other
> team members to look at.  This is happening at both sites where I have
> Samba set up as a print server and I had to downgrade one site and install
> a print server at the other.  Note that downgrading may not be advisable
> due to security concerns as well as a spooler segfault problem in 3.0.2a.
>
> 	May also be related to bug 1644 but only one of my two sites
> is running CUPS.
>
> 	I'm hoping to hear more before too long.  Is there any chance you
> can run a test with 3.0.2a just to see if it works?
>
> 	There must be a lot of people who have later versions printing
> just fine.  I just don't know what the parameter or conditions are that
> are delineating those who are working and those who are not.
>
> > print command = cp %s /var/spool/samba/dell5300n/testprint.prn
>
> 	I can print anything from the server, either through the CUP's
> management page (one site is CUPS, one is LPRng) or by enscript or lpr.
> All the Linux printing works fine.  But I can't print a test page from
> any Windows client.  No errors, but no print job ever hits the print queue.
>
>
>
> 	The team already has the URL for my traces and data.  Available
> on request for anyone else.
>
> > Douglas Sterner
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> 	Mike

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