[plug] Samba printing problems

[Leon Brooks]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> As a change from the distro wars, a little tech problem:
> 
> Samba is working fine as a file server, but the print jobs are silently
> disappearing. I'm using samba-2.0.3 on RH6, with NT4 and win95 clients.

>   My smb.conf [printers] section is unaltered by me, and a correct list of
> printcap entries show onm the SMB clients.
> I tried "debug level = 3" but dont see anything useful. Setting
> an explicit "print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s" doesnt help either.

Try explicitly defining the queue type in smb.conf

>   But after restarting samba, the NT client refuses to see the server SMB
> shares or printers, with a typically helpful "Unexpected network error".
> Sometimes I'd like to strangle the programmers who write error messages
> like that.

Turn the Linux box into the everything manager. That'll fux it. (-:

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