On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Phill wrote:
>
> Yes I can print from linux. There is nothing in the samba logs regarding
> the printing and /var/log/[printer|lpd|messages] does not exist on the
> system. It is almost like it never gets to samba at all. I have tried to
> disable firewalls on both machines but that didn't work. Mind you I didn't
> reboot linux without the firewall
Assuming a postfix printer called lp0 generate a file to print
$ ls /usr/bin | mpage >ls.ps
$ smbclient -P //localhost/lp0 -U username
smb> put ls.ps
That at least cuts the windows client out of the equation. In general I
always find it good to test stuff with smbclient on the server itself (or
perhaps another linux machine to eliminate name lookup issues). The syntax
was from memory but you want the 'connect as a printer' option to
smbclient - otherwise it's exactly the same as a file share - use ftp
style commands for smbclient (ie get/put/ls/cd)
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