Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
Hi, I recently went through all of this with a Windows 2000 machine; I ended up doing it using Samba and CUPS. Apparently there are ways to do it using lpd and apsfilter, but I think using CUPS is the cleanest solution. Configuring Samba won't be too bad if you're only going to be accessing other shares, rather than setting up shares on the FreeBSD box. In that case, not very much configuration is needed; only the smbclient and smbspool programs (these are the client programs that access other shares). Get familiar with SWAT; it's a real nice tool and makes configuring Samba mostly painless. Using SWAT, you can change the workgroup name that you want the FreeBSD box to access, and the NetBIOS name of the FreeBSD box. Note that if you do want to set up Samba shares on your FreeBSD box, you'll need to set Encrypt Passwords to yes and use smbpasswd to maintain Samba's set of username/passwords that allow Windows users to access the FreeBSD shares. First, make sure it works by generating a file that is ready to be sent direct to your printer. By that I mean a file in your printer's native raster format. You can do this using ghostscript and a postscript file (or, if your printer is already postscript, you can just send the postscript file directly). Use smbclient to do this. If it works, then your Samba configuration is good enough. Next, you will need to create a symlink to the smbspool program in /usr/local/libexec/backend (this is where CUPS keeps all of the transport programs it uses to deliver jobs to the printers). Once this is done, use the CUPS tools to add a Windows network printer using Samba. It will ask for the name of the printer, and prompt you with smb:. This is the name of the printer share. In my experience you will also need to provide a username/password to CUPS in the name; this is the user account which all the printing will be done under. I used the Guest account so that I wouldn't have my password in a file (albeit an unreadable file). In any case then the full name you will have to put here is something like smb://username:password@Windows machine name/printer share name (Type smbclient -L Windows machine name to find all the available shares on this machine, using the -U option if your username is different on the FreeBSD and Windows boxes.) From there you should be scot free from the parts concerning Samba. Potential gotchas: 1) if your printer is not natively supported by CUPS' drivers, you can use foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine to generate a driver for your printer. Follow the documentation on www.linuxprinting.org to get the printing going in this scenario; note you will need to install the foomatic-rip script yourself (I couldn't find it in ports). 2) If you set up shares on your FreeBSD box, make sure you don't have LDAP support enabled when you compile. I did by accident and it kept me from administering the Samba password file. Another neat printing solution I found online, using only lpd, is outlined on this website: http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php It involves printing to a dummy fifo, then using smbspool to send the contents of the fifo to the printer. Hope this helps, Richard _ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have three computers networked together, Two running WinXP Pro and one running FreeBSD. I would like the one running BSD to be able to use the printer connected to the WinXP machine. I have had no success in getting this to occur. The WinXP machine in question is connected to a hub, then a router and then to my cable modem. I do not want to make any changes to its network so that it will fail to connect to the internet or to the other WinXP computer. It would be a bonus if I could actually share files among all three machines, but it is not a necessity. I do need the ability to print though. I have tried configuring Samba but without success. Perhaps someone could give me some basic configuration tips, or perhaps another easier to use and setup networking tool other than Samba. Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
Gerard, Which version of Samba are you using? I am by no means an expert but I I have been reading the O'Reilly Samba book. I understand that XP security is basedon Kerberos 5. I believe you have to start with Samba V3. All I have is a couple of Win98 boxes. No XP. You now know everything I do about Samba. :-) I hope someone with more experence can educate both of us. Cheers... Gerard Seibert wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have three computers networked together, Two running WinXP Pro and one running FreeBSD. I would like the one running BSD to be able to use the printer connected to the WinXP machine. I have had no success in getting this to occur. The WinXP machine in question is connected to a hub, then a router and then to my cable modem. I do not want to make any changes to its network so that it will fail to connect to the internet or to the other WinXP computer. It would be a bonus if I could actually share files among all three machines, but it is not a necessity. I do need the ability to print though. I have tried configuring Samba but without success. Perhaps someone could give me some basic configuration tips, or perhaps another easier to use and setup networking tool other than Samba. Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
* Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-02 14:11]: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have three computers networked together, Two running WinXP Pro and one running FreeBSD. I would like the one running BSD to be able to use the printer connected to the WinXP machine. I have had no success in getting this to occur. This doesn't pertain *specifically* to XP, but: (from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/printserving-nt- +and-freebsd.html) [quote] Following is a sample /etc/printcap file entry that defines a print queue named tank on the FreeBSD system pointed to an NT LPD server queue named sherman on a NT Server named big.army.mil in the DNS. This uses the rm printcap capability. Unlike the earlier examples, the output print jobs are sent out not by the PC parallel port but over the network to the NT server. # tank|sample remote printer:\ :rm=big.army.mil:rp=sherman:sd=/var/spool/output/lphost:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: # [/quote] HTH, -- Joshua Mmm Jar-Jar; everyone hates you, but me. -- Comic Book Guy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
On Sunday 02 May 2004 05:04 pm, Gerard Seibert Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have three computers networked together, Two running WinXP Pro and one running FreeBSD. I would like the one running BSD to be able to use the printer connected to the WinXP machine. I have had no success in getting this to occur. If all you need is printing, and not file sharing, then CUPS should do what you need. It can be a little confusing to get it up and running, but probably not as confusing as Samba. /usr/ports/print/cups The WinXP machine in question is connected to a hub, then a router and then to my cable modem. I do not want to make any changes to its network so that it will fail to connect to the internet or to the other WinXP computer. It would be a bonus if I could actually share files among all three machines, but it is not a necessity. I do need the ability to print though. If you decide to use CUPS for printing, you may be able to do adequate file sharing by using the basic SMB networking built in to recent versions of FreeBSD (see mount_smbfs(8) and smbutil(1)). That should let you be a client to the WinXP file servers, although you won't be able to serve files to them. smbutil claims to be able to print to Windows shared printers, but I've never tried it, and I suspect that drivers would be an issue. When I use mount_smbfs to mount shares from my wife's XP Home system, I have to try the mount twice: it times out the first time, and works on the second. I haven't tried to debug that yet... I haven't used Samba in a few years, but when I did, its primary role was to act as a Windows server, not as a client. The client (at least back then) was very limited. I have tried configuring Samba but without success. Perhaps someone could give me some basic configuration tips, or perhaps another easier to use and setup networking tool other than Samba. Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Samba for Printing on WinXP Machine
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have three computers networked together, Two running WinXP Pro and one running FreeBSD. I would like the one running BSD to be able to use the printer connected to the WinXP machine. I think Joshua has the easy approach to this: load Windows Printing Services For Unix on the XP machine. That gives it a reasonably standard lpd server. (XP Home may not have this, don't know for sure.) Then set up an entry in /etc/printcap pointing at the XP computer. I think the XP system will send it through whatever drivers you have defined for that printer. smbclient has some printing capabilities, too, but then you may have to deal with user passwords on XP. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
