I appreciate your help. This fixed the printing problem. Unfortunately, I
blew out my 7.0 install and reinstalled 6.1 and when I reinstalled 7.0 to
try your fix it screwed up being able to mount shared drives. This was a
problem I had with my 2nd install. Oh well, maybe the 5th times a charm, at
least I can print now.
Thanx a bunch. DA
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dagnir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 printer weirdness?
> I've found a fix for this, although it's probably not the "Best
> way" (tm) to do it. After comparing an lm6.1 machine (that works w/ an
> SMB printer), and the lm7.0 (that doesn't), I found that
> /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config was mode 644 on the 6.1 machine. Obviously not
> good. The .config on the 7.0 box was 640, root.root. Changed the .config
> on the 7.0 machine to 644 and printing thru smb works. Didn't like having
> .config world-readable, so I changed it back to 640, root.lp. This works.
> I've just noticed that if you run printtool and rebuild the
> .config, it sets it back to root.root. DrakConf will leave the
> owner.group perms the same as they were originally, root.lp in this case.
>
> Bottom line, the .config should be owner-root, group-lp.
>
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> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, dagnir wrote:
>
> > I've experience a number of weird things installing Mandrake 7.0
and
> > have gone through the install 3 times and have managed to get past all
but
> > one problem. I can't get an SMB printer to work. I've tried the
Mandrake
> > configuration as well as Printtool. The printer is an HP600C that has
> > worked fine with ever flavor of linux I've tried until now.
> > The lpd daemon initalizes <OK> at boot. I've get the following
> > response with lpc:
> >
> > [root@localhost /root]# lpc status
> > lp:
> > queuing is enabled
> > printing is enabled
> > no entries
> > no daemon present
> >
> > I type lpd at the command line followed by ls > /dev/lp0 and it just
sits
> > there. I've checked the lpd, lpc,lpr and lpq permissions. The
printcap
> > file is identical to a functional version on a backup. Samba is
definately
> > running and I can smbumount shared drives. Any help or direction is
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanx Darrin
> >
> >
>
