[Samba] PRINTING FROM LINUX CLIENTS TO LINUX PRINTER SERVER WITHSAMBA

[Anders Norrbring]

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> From: samba-bounces+anders=norrbring.biz at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-
> bounces+anders=norrbring.biz at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of zynkx
> Sent: den 17 februari 2004 16:00
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] PRINTING FROM LINUX CLIENTS TO LINUX PRINTER SERVER
> WITHSAMBA
> 
> hi all and thanks in advance for reading this
> 
> i have worked with samba for a while, sharing drives on
>  my linux boxes and all went well until now.
> 
> now, i tried to share a printer.
> 
> 1 i setup a printer in a box with cups. the printer is
> working fine in that host printing everything as it is
> told.
> 
> 2 i tried to share the printer to:
>              2.1 one windows wrokstation in the lan
>              2.2 two linux boxes on the lan
> 
> with the following config file:
> [global]
>    workgroup = PRINTSERVER
>    netbios name = NEPTUN
>    server string = neptun print server
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = share
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
> SO_SNDBUF=8192
>    printcap name = lpstat
>    printing = cups
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    printer = hp_670C
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
>    create mode = 0700
>    print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r
>    lpq command = lpstat -o %p
>    lprm command = cancel %p-%j
>    use client driver = yes
> 
> i then made the client configuration on the windows
> workstation, and windows is printing well to my linux
> printing server with samba. it shares drives and the
> printer without any kind of problem.
> 
> the problem is that i cannot print form my linux boxes
> to that shared printer...
> 
> on linux boxes i made the following
> 
> 1 configured one printer queue with cups linking the
> smbspool to /usr/lib/cups/backend/
> 
> ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
> 
> 2 loaded the driver for hp 670c in cups
> 
> 3 tried to print a test page and i did it successfully
> 
> now... the only thing is that i am only able to print
> test pages... and i can't figure out the command line
> options to print from my linux print clients to my
> linux print server...
> 
> windows is doing fine though.
> 
> other thing is that when I:
> 
> smbclient //neptun/printers
> 
> i can mount the share but it does not print.
> 
> 
> 
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