[Samba] Clients can find printer when "browsing" but not otherwise
Steve Cohen
stevecoh1 at comcast.net
Sat Jun 5 22:05:44 GMT 2004
I had a working Samba installation on my home network. Then I replaced one
printer with another. The new printer is successfully installed on my RedHat
9.0 system on /dev/lp0. It is an Epson C82. From the RedHat system all is
well.
However, I am unable to print to this printer via Windows XP boxes on my
network. Samba is working to the extent that Windows can find these printers
via browsing. But that's it.
At first, I would get access denied messages under "Status" on Windows'
"Printers and Faxes" window. At that time my smb.conf looked like this:
[root at RAINIER samba]# cat smb.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from RAINIER (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/06/05 16:09:08
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = DARROW335
server string = samba server
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
unix password sync = Yes
log level = 3
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins server = 192.168.123.70
guest ok = Yes
printing = cups
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[Epson]
path = /var/spool/samba
read only = No
hosts allow = 192.168.123
printable = Yes
printer name = Epson
oplocks = No
[testshare]
path = /tmp
guest account = ftp
read only = No
hosts allow = 192.168.123.0/255.255.255.0
After reading some of the documentation, I came upon
"Use Client Driver". This looked reasonable, since I was in fact installing
the driver on the Windows boxes. I added this parameter to the config,
under the "Epson" section, restarted smbd and nmbd and now, I no longer saw
"Access Denied", I saw "Ready", but still, all attempts to print to this
printer from the Windows boxes yielded nothing. And all the auxiliary
functions like "Print Test Page" from Windows timed out.
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Steve Cohen
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