samba - Feb 2003 - Samba Print Server Problems

My Samba box consists of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. It has samba version 2.2.7a
compiled on it.

The problem i have is printing via windows machines to the samba print share.

the clients can 'print' ie send the data to the samba share where i have
got samba setup to use bsd type printing.

smb.conf lines are

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writeable = no
   printable = yes
   printing = bsd


[lp]
 printable = yes
 browseable = yes
 print command = lpr -s -P %p %s; rm %s
 path = /tmp


I have configured lpd with the lines in /etc/printcap as

lp| Samsung Laser ML-4500:\
        :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
        :if=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:mx#0:


When the clients print to the printer via samba, the data does get to lpd but
checking the logs it spurts out

--------------------------

Feb 15 19:30:51 print lpd[221]: lp: unable to open
dfA011print.domain.com('f' line)
Feb 15 19:30:51 print lpd[221]: lp: job could not be printed
(cfA011print.domain.com)
---------------------------


Does anyone want know what is going on and how to make it print out instead of
saying this error message.

Many thanks


James Read.

Can you print directly from the BSD box using the lp queue?

I ask because you have an oddly named file for your if parameter. That is
supposed to be your print filter.

I suspect, if these jobs are coming from a windows client, they are already
filtered. I would get rid of the if parameter, run checkpc -f, restart lpd,
and try it again.

Joel


On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:45:15PM -0000, James Read
wrote:
> My Samba box consists of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. It has samba version 2.2.7a
compiled on it.
> 
> The problem i have is printing via windows machines to the samba print
share.
> 
> the clients can 'print' ie send the data to the samba share where i
have got samba setup to use bsd type printing.
> 
> lp| Samsung Laser ML-4500:\
>         :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
>         :if=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:mx#0:
> 
> 
> When the clients print to the printer via samba, the data does get to lpd
but checking the logs it spurts out
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> Feb 15 19:30:51 print lpd[221]: lp: unable to open
dfA011print.domain.com('f' line)
> Feb 15 19:30:51 print lpd[221]: lp: job could not be printed
(cfA011print.domain.com)
> ---------------------------
> 
> 
> Does anyone want know what is going on and how to make it print out instead
of saying this error message.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> 
> James Read.
> 
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