On Friday 25 January 2008 19:49:05 Henry House wrote: > I've never used samba before (happily i have no windows machines of my > own). However, i would like to share a printer so that my housemate can use > it. I can't get it to work and i suspect an access-control, problem. As far > as I can tell the smb server is not accepting jobs from the client. I've > configured smb.conf like so: > > [global] > workgroup = home > netbios name = Samba > encrypt passwords = true > printing = bsd > printcap name = /etc/printcap > load printers = yes > log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m > lock directory = /var/lock/samba > > [xerox] > comment = Xerox laser printer --- use this one > path = /var/spool/lpd/lp > printer name = lp > writable = yes > public = yes > printable = yes > print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s > > The server is running Ubuntu Gutsy with lprng spooler. Local printing on > the server works perfectly. > > Here are the relevant log lines from a client (Ubuntu Gutsy with CUPS > spooler): > > E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:11 +0000] [Job 19] Unable to connect to CIFS host > after (tried 3 times) E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:11 +0000] PID 22372 > (/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb) stopped with status 1! E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:15 > +0000] PID 22371 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 9! > E [26/Jan/2008:03:46:15 +0000] PID 22371 > (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 9!
lpr and cups do not play together nicely. Bill Wells _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
