Hi I'm still tearing my hair out here trying to get printing to work via Samba-VMS 2.0.6
I couldn't get printing to work under 2.0.3 so I found the Freeware CDs distributed with OpenVMS 7.3 and installed a fresh copy of Samba 2.0.6 and still printing won't work. Alpha 1200 2 x 533 21164 processors OpenVMS 7.2 TCPIP V5something I have 2 remote printers set up in printcap.dat which work fine from the command prompt in VMS. Both printers are visible from my Win98 PC and when I try to print anything from Win98 to either printer the spool file appears in SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR] But thats as far as it ever gets. The spool file remains in that directory and no output appears at the printer. If I emulate the 'print command =' line from SMB.CONF at the command line as SYSTEM in VMS the correct output is printed. In addition, strange files with names like LPQ.001B30C5 appear in VERY large numbers especially if the printer status window is left running on the PC. These are text files which read 'LJ is running' for example. The contents of SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR]SMB.LOG is not very enlightening except for the entry: [2002/06/11 13:56:36, 1] CMS_ROOT:[SAMBA.SOURCE.SMBD]SERVICE.C;2:(535) chris (192.168.1.10) connect to service LJ as user chris (uid=4194368, gid=64) (pid=288) where the uid appears to be my VMS uid (64) multiplied by 65536 + gid (64). Preumably this is the VMS uid/gid as a 32-bit word instead of 2 x 16-bit words. I'm not using encrypted passwords and all file shares are visible and accessible. So what am I doing wrong? The entire un-commented contents of SMB.CONF follow: [global] server string = Samba %v running on %h (OpenVMS) workgroup = "WORKGROUP" encrypt passwords = No hide dot files = No map system = Yes printing = bsd printcap name = /sys$sysroot/tcpip$lpd/tcpip$printcap.dat print command = print %s /queue=%p /delete/name=SAMBA_PRINT lppause command = samba_lppause %p %j lpresume command = samba_lpresume %p %j lpq command = samba_lpstat %p lprm command = samba_lprm %p %j load printers = yes socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_KEEPALIVE share modes = yes security = user level2 oplocks = True blocking locks = True message command = samba_message %f %t %s ole locking compatibility = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 fstype = ODS2 [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no printable = yes public = yes writable = no create mode = 0700 path = /tmp Please can someone throw some light on this? Many thanks Chris ===================== Chris Smith Tech. Support Mgr VSPL, The Old Court House Trinity Road, Marlow Bucks. SL7 3AN +44 (0)1628 891616 Phone +44 (0)1628 472137 Fax
