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

[Louis van Belle]

Hi, did you try to make de spooler name ( sharename ) of the
printer "win98 photosmart" smaller to max 12 characters.
and leave the space out. Name it for example like this
w98_photosm and try again.

Loius


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>Namens Joe Cipale
>Verzonden: donderdag 6 oktober 2005 22:19
>Aan: Craig White
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Samba Cups Windows 98 Raw Printing - need help
>
>I have used both with and without '_' and I am still unable to 
>get Samba CUPS printing to work... in either direction (linux 
><-> W2K). I can even get smbclient printing to work.
>
>Joe
>
>Craig White wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ----
>> 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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