Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
[Samba] Samba 3.0.0, CUPS support - "Unable to open printcap file cups
for read!"
Fran Fabrizio fran at cis.uab.edu
Tue Dec 9 20:06:56 GMT 2003
A couple more data points:
# smbclient //ds119b/ps4
Password:
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
#
It means Samba doesn't know about a printer share named "ps4"
(nor a file share of that name)....
The syslog shows this as a result:
Dec 9 13:46:47 ds119b smbd[21284]: [2003/12/09 13:46:47,
0] printing/pcap.c:pcap_printername_ok(282)
Dec 9 13:46:47 ds119b smbd[21284]: Unable to open printcap file cups
for read!
This message might be bogus in your context and not lead to
your real problem...
Dec 9 13:46:47 ds119b smbd[21284]: [2003/12/09 13:46:47, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(850)
Dec 9 13:46:47 ds119b smbd[21284]: ds119b (192.168.2.232) couldn't
find service ps4
See?
I can successfully print to this printer from the samba linux host via
the standard lpr -Pps4 approach. I checked my cupsd.conf to make sure
it had a Printcap = /etc/printcap and PrintcapFormat = BSD entries and
it does.
Have you also checked your smb.conf for an entry of
"load printers = yes"
??
The generated /etc/printcap has only one non-comment line,
"ps4:".
That's OK.
-Fran
I forgot: should you have created the "ps4" printer
while smbd was already running, Samba might not yet
know about the printer (Samba bug -- it *should* update
its list of available printer shares just like it does
with file shares....).
Sending a "kill -HUP `pidof smbd`" might help. Or restart
smbd.
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