I have a strange problem here. I have a network of Windows NT and XP clients that print to printers shared by Samba. When I double click on the printer icon, the queue opens and it says in the title bar, "Initializing", then "Failed to connect, Retrying". I was able to resolve this on Windows NT by created "Samba Printer Port" as a local port. Unfortunatly in Windows XP, everything is greyed on on the 'Ports' tab. The most I can do right now is create a "Samba Printer Port" by going into "Server Properties" and defining a global port for all the printers. But the problem that still remains is How can I tell my networks printers to use the "Samba Printer Port"?????
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Leahu" <lee@ricis.com> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: [Samba] Selecting Samba Printer Port> I have a strange problem here. I have a network of Windows NT and XPclients that print to printers shared by Samba.> > When I double click on the printer icon, the queue opens and it says inthe title bar, "Initializing", then "Failed to connect, Retrying".> > I was able to resolve this on Windows NT by created "Samba Printer Port"as a local port. Unfortunatly in Windows XP, everything is greyed on on the 'Ports' tab. The most I can do right now is create a "Samba Printer Port" by going into "Server Properties" and defining a global port for all the printers. But the problem that still remains is How can I tell my networks printers to use the "Samba Printer Port"????? Try mapping the Samba share to a local port e.g. net use lpt2: \\server\printer This fixed similar problems for me. HTH, Alex. -------------------- Mr Alex Meaden Computer Science Undergraduate University of Kent at Canterbury aejm1@meaden.dyndns.org http://meaden.dyndns.org
I have printers shared to XP home, XP professional, and windows98, and don't have this problem. Why don't you give more particulars about your system. Include: /etc/printcap smb.conf Talk about your printer. What model, how your filter your jobs, what drivers you installed on the clients and on the server, and anything else you think might be relevant. Could this be a permissions problem? Joel On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:03:07PM -0500, Lee Leahu wrote:> I have a strange problem here. I have a network of Windows NT and XP clients that print to printers shared by Samba. > > When I double click on the printer icon, the queue opens and it says in the title bar, "Initializing", then "Failed to connect, Retrying". > > I was able to resolve this on Windows NT by created "Samba Printer Port" as a local port. Unfortunatly in Windows XP, everything is greyed on on the 'Ports' tab. The most I can do right now is create a "Samba Printer Port" by going into "Server Properties" and defining a global port for all the printers. But the problem that still remains is How can I tell my networks printers to use the "Samba Printer Port"????? > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba