[Samba] Samba Printing with CUPS

Curt Koehn
2002-08-05T08:28:02Z

Don't know if this will help with your problem but I would change your
printer driver path to someplace other than the print spool directory.
Say '/etc/samba/drivers' or something else.  See section 7.6 of the
Samba Howto document.


On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:40, Mark Vodden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit new to the whole Samba printing thing and need some help.  I
am
> running Caldera OpenLinux with Samba 2.2.4 and CUPS 1.1.10.  I have
> successfully managed to upload print drivers to the Samba server from a
> Windows NT client.  I have then managed to add the printers to several
> windows clients without downloading drivers to them.  This appeared to work
> fine, with excellent integration into our network.
>
> However, upon reboot of the Caldera server I have found that windows
clients
> who need to add the printers now no longer recognise that the printers have
> drivers associated with them.  This is pretty strange, as the drivers still
> sit in the /var/spool/samba directory!!!  Can anyone help with this
problem?
>
> Below is a copy of my smb.conf (with senxitive information removed):
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup =
>         server string = Caldera Samba Server
>         security = DOMAIN
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         password server =
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 0
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins server =
>         winbind uid = 10000-20000
>         winbind gid = 10000-20000
>         winbind separator = +
>         printing = cups
>         printcap = cups
>         load printers = yes
>
> [print$]
>         comment = Printer Drivers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = yes
>         guest ok = no
>         read only = yes
>         write list = (username is in here)
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = no
>         public = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         writeable = no
>         printable = yes
>         printer admin = (username is in here)
>
> Thanks very much for your time!
>
>
> Mark Vodden
>
>
>
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