You ain't the only one. I still cannot print using CUPS on my Mandrake 7.1
installation. And, I'm not using samba. Getting ready to give up on it.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Expert Linux List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] I don't like CUPS
> 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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