Hi folks, Whilst viewing printers on a samba 2.2.5 (just been upgraded from 2.2.4) server, both an NT and W2K machine had the print spooler service killed off at the same time. I have been reliably informed that this doesn't just happen like that! Any ideas as to why this would happen, as its a bit of a major prob. Thanks a lot, Mark Vodden Unix and Web Systems Engineer IS Operations
Mark, I found Jerry's patches for 2.2.5 Wednesday, recompiled 2.2.5 with the patches and reinstalled today. I still had problems but I followed the Samba HowTo pdf and tried setting the 'default devmode = yes' in my smb.conf and bingo, it appears to work. My real test will be later today when all the staff and faculty are in banging away but so far so good. I have all HP printers and am using the HP drivers. Tickling the printers didn't work for me but defaulting the devmode did. I think it just depends on the printers/drivers that you have. Good luck. Patches can be found here: http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/jerry/post-2.2.5 p.s. Thanks Jerry for the patches :) On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 09:31, Mark Vodden wrote:> Hi folks, > > Whilst viewing printers on a samba 2.2.5 (just been upgraded from 2.2.4) > server, both an NT and W2K machine had the print spooler service killed off > at the same time. I have been reliably informed that this doesn't just > happen like that! Any ideas as to why this would happen, as its a bit of a > major prob. > > Thanks a lot, > > Mark Vodden > Unix and Web Systems Engineer > IS Operations > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-- Curt Koehn ITS Operations System Analyst Bethel College St. Paul, MN 55112 (651) 635-8618
On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 05:02, Mark Vodden wrote:> Thanks very much Curt, > > Where exactly in smb.conf did you place the "default devmode = yes"? It is > the same case for us, we have all HP printers and drivers.I put it in the [Printers] section. Here is that section in my smb.conf [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes writable = no printable = yes printer admin = root xxxx xxxx xxxx default devmode = yes> > Also, I have installed a 2.2.5 binary, will the patch still work in the same > way?I had the 2.2.5 source rpm and applied the patches to it. You have to apply the patches to the source and rebuild the binary rpm. I don't know how familiar you are with RPMs but I've found the following document very helpful and it discusses how to use patches (under macros). http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ You also might want to check and see if these patches have been included in the src rpm on the samba site. -- Curt Koehn ITS Operations System Analyst Bethel College St. Paul, MN 55112 (651) 635-8618