I hate to admit it but I did get printing working on Samba 2.2.1a, but under IRIX. Its been awhile, and I hoped that my notes would remind me what the trick was... There is a change in printing between 2.0 and 2.2 and it also gave me grief in getting it to work (I started with 2.2.0 which had a bug in the printing system). The big change is how the printer drivers are handled, with Samba now going to the Windows RPC instead of LanMan. From looking at my setup I have a directory tree /usr/local/samba/printers with subdirectories of the various Window versions that we support, ./W32X86 and ./WIN40. Then in the smb.conf I have a [print$] share, that specifies this directory: [print$] path=/usr/local/samba/printers guest ok = Yes printable=Yes
and the usual entry for a printer served by the samba server: [HP4500] path=/tmp guest ok = Yes printable = Yes postscript = Yes printer name HP4500LJ Then you will use the Add Printer Wizard on the Windows client to add the printer. It may prompt for a privilege user/password which I believe I used root's on the Samba server (at the same time I was setting our system up as a PDC). It will ask for the printer driver and it will then magically show up in the Windows printers box. The documentation for this can be found in /usr/samba/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html in section 6 which should have come with the distro, if not check www.samba.org. Hope this helps. smbinyon -----Original Message----- From: Rilindo Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Samba 2.2.1a + Red Hat 7.2 + Printing = Grief I recently setup a Red Hat 7.2 box with Samba 2.2.1a (the one that came with dist). Printer is working fine (inkjetc HP 842c) -it successfully prints from the Linux Box, "faye". However, my laptop "ed" (running Windows 2000), won't connect to printer. First time around, it get's accessed denied, so I added my login to the write less and also tried the guest account. That worked, but it won't accept any print jobs from my laptop. Worse, when I removed the samba entry and readded it, and try to readd it, wierd stuff started to happen (like SecureCRT) crashing and getting function calls errors when I tried to bring up the properties of the driver on my laptop. >From what I understand, the Samba printing changed between 2.0.x and 2.2.x, but the instructions I read on the Samba documentation doesn't seem to help me. It used to be a lot more simpler with 2.0.x. Sigh. Has anybody setup Samba printing successfully? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
