[Samba] printing server

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I have some problem to configure a printing server with samba. I have a private
network with a linux box as a gateway to the internet and several machine on
this network some under windows, others under linux. One of the linux machine
(which is not the gateway) has a printer which I want to be shared by the
windows machines.

The gateway has 192.168.0.1 as private IP number and the linux box with the
printer has IP number 192.168.0.4

Here is my smb.conf file:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/12/02 07:35:28

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = MYGROUP
        server string = Samba Server
        interfaces = 192.168.0.4/24, 192.168.0.1/24
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        name resolve order = host wins lmhosts bcast
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        dns proxy = yes
        ldap ssl = no
        printer admin = root
        hosts allow = 192.168.0., 127.
        cups options = raw

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        browseable = No

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        guest ok = Yes
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[canon]
        path = /var/spool/samba
        guest ok = Yes
        printable = Yes
        printer name = canon

[canon1]
        path = /var/spool/samba
        guest ok = Yes
        printable = Yes
        printer name = canon1


I get some error messages when smb start, here are from the nmbd.log:

                                                                                
                             [2004/12/08 03:03:54, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(665)
  Netbios nameserver version 3.0.7-2.FC1 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2004
[2004/12/08 03:03:54, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(708)
  bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 192.168.0.1.
  Error = Ne peut attribuer l'adresse demandée
[2004/12/08 03:03:54, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:make_subnet(126)
nmbd_subnetdb:make_subnet()
  Failed to open nmb socket on interface 192.168.0.1 for port 137.  Error was Ne
peut attribuer l'adresse de
mandée
[2004/12/08 03:03:54, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(733)
  ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting.

Here are the 198.162.0.4 samba log:

[2004/12/02 06:05:47, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(189)
  startsmbfilepwent_internal: file /etc/samba/smbpasswd did not exist. File
successfully created.
[2004/12/02 06:07:15, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
  melusine (127.0.0.1) couldn't find service print$


There is a firewall on the gateway, but everything is opened on the private
network:

/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -d 192.168.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT

What is missing? Anybody could help me.

Thank you.
--
François Patte

Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte