Is cups working properly ? What do you get if you type lpq
Sometimes (on slow machines), CUPS doesn't load the printers before
samba starts. Try restarting samba.
Have you got "printing=cups" in your smb.conf file ?
Maybe you want to post you smb.conf file to the list. I have found that
after initial problems in configuring the system, that it is now very
reliable. Plus it makes it much easier to configure network printing on
the other linux boxes.
-- I used to be happy with Redhat Printtool and lpr.
I used to be able to connect to my dept printer, which is running off an
NT/W2K domain PDC.
Since installing Mandrake 7.2, this CUPS thing just won't communicate.
It's weird since from the same machine I can mount Windows shares using
mount -t smbfs no problem.
It doesn't matter what driver I use either, HP LJ 4, Postscript generic.
It seems the print job never gets to the printer, but no errors are
issued.
Under Redhat 6.x I was able to send print jobs to this printer from my
linux box. Win2k running under my VMWARE VM sends jobs fine, from the
same physical machine. Go figure.
What bonheaded thing am I missing?
Thanks,
Tom
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