I suspect that you are being laid low by obscure behavior of the printers
and the print$ shares.
Why don't you just make up a printer share specific for the printer you
are trying to use? That might solve your problem and if not it would be
easier to troubleshoot such an arrangement.
Joel
iI would get rid of the print$ section first. If no help, ul On Sat, Feb 22,
2003 at 03:45:30PM +1000, Christopher Dawson wrote:> Hi there,
>
>
> I have set up a server to act as a PDC, file server and print server for a
record store I occasionally work at.
>
> Everything is working fine, except browsing the printer share is painfully
slow. It's not really a problem, but if something is wrong I'd like to
know what it is.
>
> smb.conf contains
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> [global]
> ...
> printing = cups
> printcap = cups
> ...
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> public = yes
> guest ok = yess
> writable = no
> printable = yes
> valid users = @smbuser
> printer admin = root
>
> [print$]
> comment = Printer Drivers
> path = /usr/local/samba/drivers
> browseable = yes
> guest ok = no
> read only = yes
> valid users = @smbuser
> write list = root
>
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> and the message in the samba log is:
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> [2003/02/22 16:56:39, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(291)
> Unable to get printer status for ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d}
- client-error-not-found
> [2003/02/22 16:56:39, 0] smbd/service.c:make_conneo
::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d}
>
> ________________________________________
>
> Im using version 2.2.3a12 (debian woody binary) and cups 1.1.14
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? It looks like
it's trying to make a connection to a non-existent printer, but all the
config files I know of show only the one printer which works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
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