samba - Sep 2002 - Printing problem with Samba, XP, and Xerox Printer

Hello everyone,

I am having a problem getting Windows XP clients to print to a Xerox
DataCenter 440 using Samba as the print server running on Red Hat Linux 7.2.

I have installed the driver once and it worked fine.  I then tried to add a
second XP client, and while it appears to install and work, nothing comes
out of the printer.  It even seems to disappear at the print server.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks.

Kevin

Major bug in samba. Replace -P %p in the print command
with the absulute path to the printer.
Let me hear how it goes. 



--- Kevin Bramblett <kbramblett@dssresearch.com>
skrev: > Hello everyone,
> 
> I am having a problem getting Windows XP clients to
> print to a Xerox
> DataCenter 440 using Samba as the print server
> running on Red Hat Linux 7.2.
> 
> I have installed the driver once and it worked fine.
>  I then tried to add a
> second XP client, and while it appears to install
> and work, nothing comes
> out of the printer.  It even seems to disappear at
> the print server.
> 
> Any ideas how I can fix this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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I'm sorry, I do not understand how to set the absolute path to the printer.
I am fairly new to linux and samba.  Here is the section of my smb.conf file
that handles the printers:

[printers]
 comment = All Printers
 path = /usr/spool/samba
 browseable = yes
 print command = lpr -b -r -h -P%p %s
 writeable = no
 printable = yes
 valid users = @TUMS+"DOMAIN USERS" @TUMS+"DOMAIN WEBUSERS"

I have used the printconf to setup the printers in my printcap file and all
printers use this setting.  I am having problems only with XP as it relates
to this one Xerox DC440 printer.  I can print to HP Laserjet 4 and Color
printers without this problem.

I appreciate the helpful comment and hope you will explain further with an
example.  My Samba book does not give an example for the -P%p for absolute
path.

Thanks again,
Kevin
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:43:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?linux=20power?= <linuxpower2002@yahoo.no>
Subject: Re: [Samba] Printing problem with Samba, XP, and Xerox Printer
To: samba@lists.samba.org

Major bug in samba. Replace -P %p in the print command
with the absulute path to the printer.
Let me hear how it goes.



--- Kevin Bramblett <kbramblett@dssresearch.com>
skrev: > Hello everyone,
>
> I am having a problem getting Windows XP clients to
> print to a Xerox
> DataCenter 440 using Samba as the print server
> running on Red Hat Linux 7.2.
>
> I have installed the driver once and it worked fine.
>  I then tried to add a
> second XP client, and while it appears to install
> and work, nothing comes
> out of the printer.  It even seems to disappear at
> the print server.
>
> Any ideas how I can fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin