[Samba] Samba Cups Windows 98 Raw Printing - need help

[Dave Sheckells]

Hello -
I am trying to use Samba and Cups to serve a file share and a "raw"
printer to a Windows 98 client. I am using Gentoo Linux, kernel
2.6.12, Samba 3.0.14a, and Cups 1.1.23.  I can access the data share
from the Samba server, but the printer share does not show up when I
try to use it, even if I specifically type in the name of the share
(\\data_dog\win98_photosmart) it still doesn't work.

I had this working with this laptop and a "practice" file server I
had, the hard drive died in that machine, so I've set up my new file
server and I can't get this to work.

Before I had either of the file servers I had installed the printer
directly on this laptop. When I set up the "practice" file server I
was able to make it work by changing the port the printer used from
it's own usb to the printer share, \\data_dog\win98_photosmart (to
change the printer port in Win 98 you go to the detail tab of the
printer properties dialog box).

I have been trying every different samba and cups option I could
google for the last week. Please look over my smb.conf and cupsd.conf
and tell me where I'm going wrong.

data_dog ~ # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
netbios name = data_dog
workgroup = sheckellfield
server string = samba %v on %L
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = yes
local master = yes
os level = 128
log level = 3
log file = /var/log/samba.log
max log size = 50
hosts allow = 192.168.0.
read only = no
printing = cups
printcap = cups
load printers = yes

[data]
path = /srv/samba/data_share
comment = %S on %L
volume = data_share
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0770
force create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 0770

[win98_photosmart]
comment = HP Photosmart 7150
printer = win98_photosmart
path = /var/spool/samba/win98_photosmart
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
printer admin = root, @wheel
use client driver = yes

Here are the parts of my cupsd.conf file that are not comments:

DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/docs

LogLevel info

User lp
Group lp

Port 631

SystemGroup lp

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.0.0/24
</Location>

<Location /admin>

AuthType Basic
AuthClass System

Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.0.0/24
</Location>

The only thing I've added to the file are the two "Allow From
192.168.0.0/24" lines.  Everything else is Gentoo default.

I think that cups is working properly, at least as far as controlling
the printer. Here is my /etc/cups/printers.conf:

data_dog cups # cat printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Wed Oct 5 12:28:11 2005
<DefaultPrinter win98_photosmart>
Info HP Photosmart 7150
Location Above meerkat
DeviceURI usb://hp/photosmart%207150?serial=MY3445509G2F
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

I set up the printer with the cups web interface. If I click on "Print
Test Page" the printer prints a couple of lines that look like this:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
...

and then starts spitting out blank pages. The tail of the file
/var/log/cups/error_log looks like this after a test page print:

data_dog cups # tail error_log
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:27 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8808)
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:28 -0700] Adding start banner page "none" to job 1.
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:28 -0700] Adding end banner page "none" to job 1.
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:28 -0700] Job 1 queued on 'win98_photosmart' by 'root'.
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:28 -0700] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 8809) for job 1.
I [05/Oct/2005:12:28:32 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8810)
I [05/Oct/2005:12:30:39 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8823)
I [05/Oct/2005:12:30:49 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=8824)
I [05/Oct/2005:12:30:51 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=8825)
I [05/Oct/2005:12:30:59 -0700] Started
"/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=8826)

The last five lines are generated by me clicking on other buttons in
the web interface before typing in the tail command.
This shows that cups can communicate with the printer, but it is
trying to send a postscript file to a raw print queue, so I'm getting
garbage output.

I think this means the problem is at the cups/samba interface or just
that samba is not serving the print share properly.  I checked to see
if cups support was compiled into Samba with ldd `which smbd` and it
showed up properly.

If anyone has any idea where I'm going wrong, please tell me, also, if
more info about my system is needed, please post.

Thanks,
ds