Well the configuration that you have written is the same as the one the
control panel's print setup produced. I've cut n pasted your two scripts
and modified share to match mine and restarted both lpd and samba (yes I
am using samba) and it still did not work.
I'm certain I have samba working as other machines can see the linux
machine on their workgroup and the linux machine can see (and mount
shares) from other computers. I did notice, flicking t hrough smb.conf
again, that it loads the printers from printcap (as per normal in smb)
so it h as a share which is the printer as well, I tried printing from
one windows machine through the linux share, to the other windows
machine and that still didn't work either. Get's to the linux machine
and disapears (into /dev/null presumably).
Any ideas as to what could be going wrong? I've had the same problem at
work (as have other people who have tried to get mandrake 7.0 to print
to a win98 shared laser printer), could there have been a problem with
the samba used in 7.0 that was fixed by 7.1?
Thanks,
Paul
Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> Well, this is the entry out of my /etc/printcap using Mandrake 7.1 to a
> 'doze printer:
>
> ##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ljet2p 300x300 a4 {} LaserJet2p Default 1
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> and this is out of /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config
>
> share='\\scribe\star'
> hostip=
> user=''
> password=''
> workgroup=''
>
> Needless to say, I am running Samba, are you?
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Howard.
> ______________________________________________________
> LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Paul Robinson wrote:
>
> > Howdy all,
> > I have been trying for quite a while to get my mandrake 7.0 box to
> > print to a laserjet attached to a win98 machine. Try as I may (including
> > following a set of "fool proof" instructions in the last issue of
> > APCmag) I cannot get it to print.
> >
> > my /etc/printcap is as follows :
> >
> > lp:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :sh:\
> > :lp=/dev/null:\
> > :if=/usr/bin/smbprint:
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