Oops, time to eat my hat again...
It seems that latest samba packages from Mandrake do include smbspool, only they
include it
in samba- and not in samba-client..
My new problem with cups seems to be that hackkernel has a very strange version of
smbfs,
that
refuses to connect with smbspool by smb://username:password@servername/share
but rather demands smbclient or smbprint with '-I serverip'
Anyone familiar with this problem?
Moshe Vainer wrote:
> My mistake, i was talking all the time about smbspool, which is not included in
>mandrake.
>
> Too bad, since it is the only way to print from cups to smb printers...
>
> From the cups manual:
>
> <quote>
> Printing to Windows Servers
>
> CUPS can print to Windows servers in one of two ways. The first way uses the LPD
>protocol
> on the CUPS system and the "TCP/IP Printing Services" on the Windows
> system. You can find out more about this configuration in the LPD section earlier in
>this
> chapter.
>
> The second way is through the Microsoft Server Message Block ("SMB") protocol.
>Support for
> this protocol is provided with the free SAMBA software package. You can
> download SAMBA from:
>
> http://www.samba.org
>
> To configure CUPS for SAMBA, run the following command:
>
> ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb ENTER
>
> The smbspool(1) program is provided with SAMBA starting with SAMBA 2.0.6. Once you
>have
> made the link you can configure your printers with one of the following
> device URIs:
>
> smb://workgroup/server/sharename
> </quote>
>
> I already pointed this list to this problem once, to no avail. Redhat is doing a
>better
> job at this.
> This is even more strange, since cups is going to be the default printing system for
> Mandraks, IIRC.
>
> Rgrds,
> Moshe Vainer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>
> > Hi Moshe!
> >
> > > > Well actualy mandrake DOES include smbprint in its samba package, and I have
> > > > it installed.
> > > >
> > > > [root@dark /root]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/smbprint
> > > > samba-client-2.0.6-4mdk
> > > >
> > > > SHadowX
> > >
> > > But not in latest cooker - (samba-client-2.0.7-7mdk)
> > > The only way it worked for me was to install
> > > samba-client-2.0.7-4utmp from Redhat.
> >
> > No, you're wrong here definitifely. I just checked myself
> > (and smb printing works for me at office):
> >
> > [root@linux cups]# rpm -qf `which smbprint`
> > samba-client-2.0.7-7mdk
> > [root@linux cups]#
> >
> > Maybe something is wrong with your samba-client-package,
> > so you might want to reinstall it.
> >
> > > Anyway, it is easily tested by the command you just provided,
> > > so to the original poster, you can use
> > > #rpm -qf /usr/bin/smbprint
> > > to see if you have smbprint in your samba-client package.
> > >
> >
> > It works for me :) Hopefully ShadowX can test if smbprint itself
> > works, before seeking the problem within cups.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Reinhard Katzmann
> > --
> > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
