severity 339015 normal thanks > I have two samba servers with attached printers (epsonSC880 and > hp895cxi). Both have been printing fine (from Debian and Windows clients) > for several months however, in the last few weeks this machine with the > HP printer wouldn't print. I can print a test page from the server > itself but clients can't seem to access the printer. > > I've had a number of attempts to troubleshoot the problem without > success. I've compared the smb.conf files of both and they are > configured broadly in the same manner. Access to the shares on the > server work OK, it is only printing that presents a problem. If I > delete the printer on a windows client and reinstall, it prints but if I > reboot the client, it stops working again. > > Using the cups web interface on a Debian client I've deleted and > reinstalled the printer and it reports that the printer is successfully > installed and is 'idle, ready to print'. However, trying to print gives > the error above.
Could you please send a log excerpt by logging at level 3 temporarily? ("log level = 3" in the General section) Please also post the [general] section of you smb.conf or at least mention us the "security=" setting in it ? > > On the samba site I found this: > > [WHATSNEW-3-0-21rc1.txt]**** > ... the python bindings. * BUG 1864: Add sd->type field to > security descriptor Python representation. * Return an error if a > Netapp filer returns NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to return > the security descriptor for a file. * BUG 1884: Fixes for the Python > bindings to use the value of the desired ... > http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3-0-21rc1.txt > 11/11/05, 212069 bytes Well, except by the very generic error message, I actually fail to see whether this could related. Is the samba server running sarge (which I assume, considering the version of the samba package)?