UPDATE Re: [Samba] Samba / cups problem

Misty Stanley-Jones misty at borkholder.com
Tue Sep 28 20:31:31 GMT 2004


FYI, changing "printcap name = cups" to "printcap name = /etc/printcap" did 
the trick.  What a waste of two days!  I followed the docs and they always 
said to use "printcap name = cups".  Any ideas when / why this changed?

Misty

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 14:20, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> Here is an update to my problem.  The testparm command is reporting this
> for [printers]:
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /data/samba/spool
>         guest ok = Yes
>         printable = Yes
>         print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r
>         browseable = No      <-----
>
> But the actual smb.conf has this:
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /data/samba/spool
> print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r
> browseable = yes   <------------------------
> public = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writeable = no
> printable = yes
>
> Yes I have restarted Samba.  No I do not know what is going on.  I have
> only one smb.conf on my whole system.  I may be crazy, but damn this is
> confusing. I think this is why I am not seeing any printers.
>
> Misty


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