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

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:03 -0700, Dave Sheckells wrote:
> 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
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maybe it's just me but I've had problems using the underscore in machine
names and have resorted to only letters/numbers/hyphens

Craig


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