On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote:
> Here is the setup....
>
> I have a 486 box driving a Winprinter with (what else could it be?)
> windows which is on my LAN.
>
> Mucho many Win95 and Win98 WinWorkboxes print to that printer. So also
> did a lone LinWorkbox running Festen.
>
> Nothing mysterious. SMB shared printer. The Festen box had Samba
> configured "All printers /var/spool/lsamba" in the smb.conf file. The
> /etc/printcap entry had \\testrig\hpwin for its target at a static IP
> (also identified), and a filter for postscript printers as well as a
> target of /var/spool/lpd/lp. It printed.
>
> Enter venus. Venus box, former Festen box now will NOT print.
>
> Upgrades
>
> kernel......27
> initscripts....26
> printtool...5
> samba-2.0.4b-8
> kdenetwork
> net-tools
>
> Still broken
>
> Configuration same as what worked with Festen, now, after trying all the
> settings combinations I can think of.
>
> Any advice? (yeh, get rid of winprinter and use a mini-distribution
> with Samba and print facilities on the printbox as I did with the
> LaserJet 5Si.) How can I continue to use the winprinter? I have
> several old boxes and several winprinters to recycle as I move these
> folks to the All-Linux office.
>
> Michael Moore aka Civileme
>
>
I'd need specific error's to trace it, sorry no printers on hand build in
this decade.
