On Wednesday 27 November 2002 17:17, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I sent a question to the list yesterday about my problem printing from my > > win98 laptop via samba in my linux box to my USB deskjet printer > > connected to the linux box. > > Go back to your email of yesterday. What help were you asking for? You > simply stated what was happening. If you want help from people on a > mailing list then you need to be very brief and very clear about what help > you need.
Why do you say that I have to go back to that e-mail ?. To the last. Then I'm sorry. I told in the e-mail from yesterday what the problem was. > I would recommend that you in the [printers] section you spool to > /var/spool/samba, not to /tmp. The samba spool directory needs to be set > with permissions 1777, ie: rwxrwxrwt. This is where the print jobs are > collected from the Windows client, when the job has arrived it is then > sent to the CUPS spooler. Thanks for this info. > Your information says nothing about your CUPS configuration. Can you print > to the USB printer from Linux? As mentioned in the first e-mail, yes I can. Here is the printer.conf file: ------------------------------------- # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.15 # Written by cupsd on Wed 27 Nov 2002 03:30:52 PM GMT <DefaultPrinter lj1100> Info Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100 Location Parallel printer on /dev/lp0 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Stopped StateMessage Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> <Printer usb> Info Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 895C Location USB printer on /dev/usb/lp0 DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> > > - John T. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux 8.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
