On the print server look in var/spool/samba and see if the print jobs you
sent are there. If so you may be having the same issue I had. I set my
printer up on linux as lp, and then in samba.conf I set the share up as
[Epson], so the share would so, I could connet to it and send jobs, but
nothing would happen. I checked the queue and the jobs were spooled.
>From the command line when I typed:
lpr-cups -P Epson -o raw filetoprint -r
nothing would happen but when I typed:
lpr-cups -P lp -o raw filetoprint -r
The job would print out, so I changed my printer share in smb.conf to lp,
restarted samba and all has worked. I have the raw option because I am using
the windows drivers and not a gereric ps printer.
Maybe this will help you, I beat my head for a couple of day before I saw the
obvious.
Jerry S.
On Saturday 27 January 2001 00:41, Wood Brent wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
> The problem:
>
> My HP710c prints fine locally, is visible on the LAN
> to my W98 box but printing from W98 to the printer
> does nothing.
>
> The printer installs & works OK from M7.2 (& from W98
> on LPT1).
>
> It can be found on the lan by W98 (off the Linux
> server) by browsing for printers.
>
> Printing to the SMB shared printer (installed as hp on
> the M7.2 box) from Windows generates no Windows
> errors, but also no hard copy.
>
> I've configured it as well as I can from assorted
> how-to documents, but this step has me stuck.
>
> The following excerpt from the log.smb file also
> decribes the smb.conf file... no errors that I can
> see.
>
> [2001/01/27 18:02:21, 2]
> param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
> Processing section "[printers]"
> doing parameter comment = All Printers
> doing parameter browseable = yes
> doing parameter printable = yes
> doing parameter public = yes
> doing parameter writable = no
> doing parameter create mode = 0700
> doing parameter print command = lpr-cups -P 0
> [2001/01/27 18:02:21, 0]
> param/loadparm.c:service_ok(1825)
> No path in service printers - using /tmp
> [2001/01/27 18:02:21, 2]
> param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
> Processing section "[hp]"
> doing parameter printer name = hp
> doing parameter writeable = yes
> doing parameter browseable = yes
> doing parameter public = yes
> doing parameter printable = yes
> doing parameter create mode = 0700
> doing parameter print command = lpr-cups -P hp %s
> doing parameter lpq command = lpstat -o hp
> doing parameter path = /var/spool/cups
>
>
> the Kups tool lists 2 directories:
>
> temp files: /var/spool/cups/tmp
> temp requests: /var/spool/cups
>
> but I'm not sure how these relate to the smb
> configuration.
>
> Thanks....
>
> Brent Wood
>
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