printing still

[Adam McDougall]

Have you heard of or tried the apsfilter package?  It simplifies printer
setup and includes spool & samba stuff setup. If you cant find it ill dig
up a url

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> I still got trouble printing from Win98 box via samba. I can at least now
> transfer the print job as file to the Linux box but it won't print but only
> saves the file in the spool directory.
>
> Got Linux box with lprng and samba. Printing from Linux box works fine.
> Win98 box can share drive fine but has trouble printing. When I print the
> file gets transferred to /var/spool/samba (permissions 1777) but is then not
> printed and also not deleted as was intended.
>
> Here is my printcap and smb.conf
>
> smurf:cm=Network Printer smurf:\
> :lp=smurf.mydomain.com%9100:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\
> :ifhp=model=hp2100,status@:\
> :sh:\
> :filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
> :mx#0
>
>
> [global]
>   workgroup = SHADOWWARRIOR
>   guest account = nobody
>   keep alive = 30
>   os level = 2
>   kernel oplocks = false
>   security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
>   lock directory = /var/lock/samba
>   hosts allow = 192.168.1.
>   interfaces = 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
>   load printers = yes
>
> [network-drive]
>   path = /winmount
>   comment = Network Drive
>   create mode = 644
>   writeable = yes
>   guest ok = yes
>
> [printers]
>   path = /var/spool/samba
>   print ok = yes
>   printing = lprng
>   printable = yes
>   printcap file = /etc/printcap
>   guest ok = yes
>   public = yes
>   print command =       /usr/bin/lpr  -U%U@%M -P%p -r %s
>   lpq command   =       /usr/bin/lpq  -U%U@%M -P%p
>   lprm command  =       /usr/bin/lprm -U%U@%M -P%p %j
>   lppause command =     /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M hold %p %j
>   lpresume command =    /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M release %p %j
>   queuepause command =  /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M -P%p stop
>   queueresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M -P%p start
>
> [smurf]
>   path = /var/spool/samba
>   guest ok = yes
>   printable = yes
>   print ok = yes
>   public = yes
>   printing = lprng
>   printer name = smurf
>   print command =       /usr/bin/lpr  -U%U@%M -P%p -r %s
>   lpq command   =       /usr/bin/lpq  -U%U@%M -P%p
>   lprm command  =       /usr/bin/lprm -U%U@%M -P%p %j
>   lppause command =     /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M hold %p %j
>   lpresume command =    /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M release %p %j
>   queuepause command =  /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M -P%p stop
>   queueresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc -U%U@%M -P%p start
>
>
> /var/log/log.smb:
> [2000/12/16 23:15:51, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641)
> smbd version 2.0.7 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [2000/12/16 23:15:51, 0] param/loadparm.c:map_parameter(1681)
> Unknown parameter encountered: "printcap file"
> [2000/12/16 23:15:51, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(2223)
> Ignoring unknown parameter "printcap file"
>
> /var/log/samba-log.lab2:
> [2000/12/16 23:16:53, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550)
> lab2 (192.168.1.3) connect to service printers as user nobody (uid=65534,
> gid=65534) (pid 18223)
> [2000/12/16 23:19:36, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(583)
> lab2 (192.168.1.3) closed connection to service printers
> [2000/12/16 23:23:25, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(550)
> lab2 (192.168.1.3) connect to service printers as user nobody (uid=65534,
> gid=65534) (pid 18234)
> [2000/12/16 23:26:30, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(583)
> lab2 (192.168.1.3) closed connection to service printers
>
>
> mk
>
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