RESOLVED--Re: [Samba] Print Share Problem

[John H Terpstra]

On Friday 20 May 2005 14:57, Eric Hines wrote:
> The printer stanza has to be _called_ [printers]?  [pserver1]--the name
> [pserver1]--the name of the specific share--isn't sufficient?  If the only
> stanza is [printers], then how does the specific printer get found?
>
> I changed [pserver1] to [printers], and now the correct specific printer
> shows up, but still--my question stands.

For systems running SYSV or BSD printing do: testparm -sv | grep lp

This will return the actual commands smbd uses to find print queues.

On cups systems, smbd directly queries the cupsd using a built-in interface.

The only time it is necessary to specify the printer configuration in detail 
is where you want to restrict certain printers from use.

- John T.


>
> Thanks
>
> Eric Hines
>
> At 05/20/05 14:11, you wrote:
> >On Friday 20 May 2005 13:03, E Hines wrote:
> > > I'm running FC3 and Samba 3.0.14a.  I'm trying to work through Exercise
> > > 2.3 of the on-line Samba-3 by Example, and mostly things ore OK, but I
> > > can't get my print share to show up when I run smbclient -L localhost
> > > -U %.  Everything else shows up correctly (although I do get two
> > > workgroups to appear, as there is another workgroup to which I used to
> > > belong before I separated from it (I thought) to set up a test LAN for
> > > these exercises), and I both can ping my printer by name and get back
> > > its correct MAC address from a subsequent arp -a.
> >
> >Where is your [printers] meta-service stanza? That is in the example
> > smb.conf file and is necessary.
> >
> >- John T.
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >--
> >John H Terpstra
> >Samba-Team Member
> >Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668
> >
> >Author:
> >The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
> >Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
> >Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
> >Other books in production.
>
> Government programs provide enough to keep you alive, but they don't offer
> any hope of living your dreams.
>          --Grim

-- 
John H Terpstra
Samba-Team Member
Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668

Author:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.