samba - Feb 2003 - Re: mapping printers from 2K and XP

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 05:46, samba-request@lists.samba.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:11:34 -0300
> From: "Demian Lessa" <demian@knowhow-online.com.br>
> Subject: [Samba] mapping printers from 2K and XP
> Message: 5
> The only problem I'm having right now is that windows 2K and xp clients
> always display the Samba printer with status = error. Even so, they print
> correctly.
> Any clues?
Have you looked at permission of your spooldir in (default)
/var/spool/samba

WIndows XP en 2000 try to check on the remote spool (on the samba
machine) for status afaik so as long as you're not checking your spool
out as root you can't check status if you doon't have read permission in
the spooldir. If you don't want to set permission you can map the
printer to an lpt port in NT5 or disable spoolss in samba (smb.conf)
afaik, all of this will make NT5 look at the printers through the lanman
protocol (which is the same as the protocol win9x uses) and that uses
local spooling or at least not look at the remote spoolstatus. Please
correct me if I'm wrong anyone :).

Regards
Bas

I had this problem with windows XP. I solved it with :
use client driver = yes
in the printer share definition.
Joel

the On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:12:16AM +0100, Bas Goes
wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 05:46, samba-request@lists.samba.org wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:11:34 -0300
> > From: "Demian Lessa" <demian@knowhow-online.com.br>
> > Subject: [Samba] mapping printers from 2K and XP
> > Message: 5
> 
> > The only problem I'm having right now is that windows 2K and xp
clients
> > always display the Samba printer with status = error. Even so, they
print
> > correctly.
> > Any clues?
> 
> Have you looked at permission of your spooldir in (default)
> /var/spool/samba
> 
> WIndows XP en 2000 try to check on the remote spool (on the samba
> machine) for status afaik so as long as you're not checking your spool
> out as root you can't check status if you doon't have read
permission in
> the spooldir. If you don't want to set permission you can map the
> printer to an lpt port in NT5 or disable spoolss in samba (smb.conf)
> afaik, all of this will make NT5 look at the printers through the lanman
> protocol (which is the same as the protocol win9x uses) and that uses
> local spooling or at least not look at the remote spoolstatus. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong anyone :).
> 
> Regards
> Bas
> 
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