I initially thought this was a cups problem, but looks like samba now . . .
I have been using a Brother MFC9880 printer with Samba. Everything has been
fine for the last month, until things stopped working recently (on a Monday
morning with no intervention over the weekend. Samba log is below:
My system:
Debian woody
Samba-2.2.3a-14.1
cupsys-1.1.14-5woody1
MFC9880 connected to server by USB.
This has intermittently happened in the past and can sometimes be fixed by
restarting samba/cups, but I can't affort outages in a busy office!!
BTW - printing using cups by http (http://debian:631/printers/mfc9880) from
windows client works fine - so I think the problem is with samba.
Can anybody help??
My smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
encrypt passwords = true
obey pam restrictions = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spas
sword:* %n\n .
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = No
invalid users = root
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
printable = Yes
browseable = Yes
guest only = yes
use client driver = yes
guest account = smbprint
[public]
path = /home/apache/files
force user = www-data
force group = www-data
read only = No
create mask = 0640
guest ok = Yes
The errors in smb.conf:
[2004/11/10 13:46:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(291)
Unable to get printer status for mfc9880,winspool,ne04: -
client-error-not-found
[2004/11/10 13:46:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(249)
robert (192.168.0.7) couldn't find service mfc9880,winspool,ne04:
