I had this problem with windows XP. I solved it with : use client driver = yes in the printer share definition. Joel
the On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:12:16AM +0100, Bas Goes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 05:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:11:34 -0300 > > From: "Demian Lessa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Samba] mapping printers from 2K and XP > > Message: 5 > > > The only problem I'm having right now is that windows 2K and xp clients > > always display the Samba printer with status = error. Even so, they print > > correctly. > > Any clues? > > Have you looked at permission of your spooldir in (default) > /var/spool/samba > > WIndows XP en 2000 try to check on the remote spool (on the samba > machine) for status afaik so as long as you're not checking your spool > out as root you can't check status if you doon't have read permission in > the spooldir. If you don't want to set permission you can map the > printer to an lpt port in NT5 or disable spoolss in samba (smb.conf) > afaik, all of this will make NT5 look at the printers through the lanman > protocol (which is the same as the protocol win9x uses) and that uses > local spooling or at least not look at the remote spoolstatus. Please > correct me if I'm wrong anyone :). > > Regards > Bas > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
