[plug] Samba printing problems

[brian coleman]

1. The printer set up in version 2 of Samba has added a number of new 
printer options. Suggest what you both do is to use swat to have a look at 
them. The can be accessed by the advanced view from within the global menu 
option.

2.  "lpstat" especially /usr/bin/lpstat is very much part of Sys V UNIX 
printing systems and is a binary status module rather than a text file.

3. As an easy way out if you set up a raw queue to your printer (you can 
have more than one queue accessing a single printer) and then point your 
Windoze printer to that queue but print to the queue using the Windoze 
drivers for your printer instead of whatever you are currently using.

4. Just as a matter of interest have you checked to see if the filters you 
are using have changed between the 2 RedHat releases?

Brian C.


>From: "Paul Tsang" <ptsa at cygnus.uwa.edu.au>
>
>Don't have a solution, but I had/still have the same problems , similar to
>you described.  I did a re-install of redhat5.2 over a redhat 5.2
>installation.
>....so you're not the only one.:)
>My smb.conf and printcap files were similar to yours, and my windows
>machines can see the printer ok.  I was although getting something in the
>queue for the printer (/var/spool/samba).  It just wasn't printing from 
>that
>queue  - there was a file in the directory but nothing showed why I did a
>lpq.   Is it possible its a permissions problem for the directory or
>something???
>
>
>-Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> > Of Michael Hunt
> > Sent: Thursday, 13 May 1999 5:16
> > To: PLUG Mailing List
> > Subject: [plug] Samba printing problems
> >
> >
> > As per my previous e-mail I just completed an upgrade to my box
> > (RedHat 6.0
> > from 5.2 Clean new install) but have since discovered samba printing is
> > broken (Linux printing is working great). I set-up a new printer and 
>also
> > copied my old smb.conf file into /etc (I was running samba 2.0.3 on my 
>5.2
>snip snip


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