Rick Flower
1997-Nov-22 07:29 UTC
Printing from NT4(SP3) --> Samba SOLVED!! (Put into Samba HINTS file!)
Hi all! I've been trying in vain to get my printing working between NT4 SP3
and Samba (1.9.17p3).. I initially had some success for a while, but ended up
screwing it up and was unable to backtrack to a working setup.. Anyway, I
played around with it tonight and was FINALLY able to fix a few problems and
get it working! Some of this information is currently NOT in the HINTS file
that is part of the documentation, but this SHOULD be.. These are things to
check when having printing problems :
1) Keep printer queue names short! I had a printer queue named
"b201_1718_bay"
which was apparently way too long.. I've now got it at
"201_1718" and am
having no problems.. I read somewhere that this is a restriction -- Is
this one of the 8 character limits?? Perhaps someone could clarify this!
2) Make sure you've really got a guest account! I specified the
"ftp" account
under Solaris 2.5.1 and this was NOT sufficient! I ended up creating a
(not to be really used) guest account and set a bogus password for it to
keep looky-loo's out.. Then you set the global option "guest
account = "
string accordingly.
3) Make your printer browseable, so that you are able to pick it from a list
if you use the "Add Printer" icon from within the printer control
panel
(NT/95?). This step may be optional. It works for what we've got.
4) Specify the specific printer driver in the smb.conf file for each printer
if necessary! I've got lines in my smb.conf file like the following :
printer name = HP LaserJet 5/5M PostScript
Once this is done, this will keep the printer installation program from
complaining about a unsuitable "NULL" driver!
This last step is the most IMPORTANT part!!
5) Double-click on "My Computer", followed by the "Printers"
folder. Now,
select "File" menu, followed by "Server Properties". At
this point, a
window of Server Properties should be up -- select the "Ports" tag.
Scroll
down to the bottom of the list (or wherever you see lines like the
following :
\\SAMBASERVER\your_printer LAN Manager Printer Port your_printer
After days of futzing with these various printer settings within Samba
and adding the same printer queues over and over, I had quite a large list
of these printer "ports" (with different names). After I deleted
ALL
of them and rebooted and then ADDED the new Samba printers, ALL of my
printing problems are GONE!!
This last step was the kicker for me! Once I did this and rebooted followed
by re-installing the printers, I was able to print to 5 different printers!
Pretty slick!
-- Rick
Scott D. Webster
1997-Nov-22 23:11 UTC
Printing from NT4(SP3) --> Samba SOLVED!! (Put into Samba HINTS file!)
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Rick Flower wrote: <SNIP>> 2) Make sure you've really got a guest account! I specified the "ftp" account > under Solaris 2.5.1 and this was NOT sufficient! I ended up creating a > (not to be really used) guest account and set a bogus password for it to > keep looky-loo's out.. Then you set the global option "guest account = " > string accordingly.<SNIP> I believe putting "NP" in the password field of /etc/shadow is actually a more secure way to go. It makes it so that account can not be logged into. -- Scott D. Webster swebster@carroll.com Etc Services Voice: 201.385.7113 Linux / Unix Consulting Pager: 800.379.2402