Hello there,
We want to improve the way we initially setup printing on a farm of
about 20 Solaris 2.6 servers, in a way that all the possibillities of
printing are well impelmented and usable. Right now users can't delete
jobs when they are queued onto the (Samba)server and (of course, because
it's configured now like that- see example) every printer's job list
appears in the same queue.
I therefore would appreaciate it if I could see some examples of how
others (pref. on Solaris) have set up the smb.conf to have a very tight
cooperation with the printing facility of the OS. I mean, like the
'lpq/lpresume/lppause/lprm/print command' options. Any lp commands than
can be tuned?
And what about 'lpq cache time', sensible to increase its value?
Also if there are some more Solaris 'heads ups', I would be more than
greatful to learn them.
We currently run Samba version 1.9.18p10. We have (and still run this
because of ) it 'hacked' with LDAP support (uid,gid,home).
Right now these printer specific values are specified:
[global]
....
printcap name = /etc/printers.conf
...
;
; Printers
;
[printers]
path = /var/spool/smbprint
writeable = no
public = yes
printable = yes
...
Kind regards,
Frans Stekelenburg
Just to be complete, this currently looks like the complete SMB.CONF
(please don't laugh:-)
; GLOBAL Section
;
[global]
workgroup = XYZ
security = user
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
log file = /var/adm/samba.log
printcap name = /etc/printers.conf
ldap host = 10.1.4.10
ldap port = 389
ldap bind dn = uid=admin,o=xyz.com
ldap bind secret = secret
ldap search base = o=xyz.com
; dead time = 5
;
; Printers
;
[printers]
path = /var/spool/smbprint
writeable = no
public = yes
printable = yes
;
; Home directories, only read/writeable by owner.
;
[homes]
guest ok = no
read only = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
;
; Department directory, read only.
;
[department]
path = /var/fileserv/department/%g
public = no
read only = yes
;
; Department directory, read/writable by group members
;
[departmentshare]
path = /var/fileserv/department/%g
public = no
read only = no
create mask = 0770
force create mode = 0660
directory mask = 0770
force directory mode = 0770
force group = %g
;
; Server-wide software directory, read only.
;
[bin]
path = /var/fileserv/bin
public = no
read only = yes
;
; Server-wide shareable files directory.
;
; NOTE: LOCKING DISABLED FOR APPLICATION-X!!!
;
[servershare]
path = /var/fileserv/servershare
public = no
locking = no
read only = no
create mask = 0777
force create mode = 0666
directory mask = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
ole locking compatibility = no
fake oplocks = yes
blocking locks = False
share modes = no
;
; Server-wide scratch area, files are removed after 10 days, no
; backups.
;
[tmp]
comment = Common scratch area
path = /scratch
read only = no
public = yes