printing still

Marcel Kunath kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:11:00 -0500 (EST)


>
> > Besides even if this worked I still would love to know why my Samba setup
> > doesn't work.
>
> Gotta love a challenge =)

until you start to hate it....

>
> > Problem was file gets spooled right to the Linux box but then not printed.
>
> How come you are spooling to //mail/ whatever instead of directly to the
> print queue? /var/spool/lpd ?

I connect to Samba via \\mail\printers which then interprets the smb.conf file
and finds the spool directory /var/spool/lpd/samba

>
> Also make sure the user Samba is running on has permissions to print on
> your system.

How do I do that? I am not even sure what user/group samba runs under.

mk