On Thu, 30 May 2002, WEBSTER, Greg wrote: > > Discovered something that cost me an hour or two trying to solve. > > In http://localhost:901/swat/help/smb.conf.5.html#PRINTCAPNAME it says: > ----- > To use the CUPS printing interface set printcap name = cups . This should be > supplemented by an addtional setting printing = cups in the [global] > section. printcap name = cups will use the "dummy" printcap created by CUPS, > as specified in your CUPS configuration file. > ----- > > Well...in that case, "printcap name = cups" makes Samba look for a file > called "cups" which doesn't exist (maybe some old version of CUPS > created this file instead of editing /etc/printcap?). Therefore you get > errors in
Did you with the cups libraries? > /var/log/messages and Samba can't find the printers you used CUPS to set > up. And that means you spend quite a while looking for a problem that > just happened because you followed directions. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
