samba - May 2003 - problem getting remote printer working

I have a Debian laptop and an OS X desktop computer.

on the Mac I have set up windows file sharing and I have set up print sharing.

I then proceded to install samba and komba2 on my system....all set up and 
komba2 sees mt workgroup and sees the shared printer...it registers it with 
CUPS and everything........

however, I tried printing and nothing happened. I checked CUPS on the laptop 
and it siad it could not connect to the remote printer...

I tried setting up a new printer in cups and everything seemed ok, CUPS said 
that it was able to connect and everything.

so I try printing again....nothing.

I checked CUPS on the Mac and it did not register any job at all. I saw that 
the device was pointing to /dev/null on the Mac so I fixed that...still 
nothing.

why can I browse the printer in Komba2 but CUPS is getting bad settings?

what am I doing wrong?

thanks,

Jeremy

Jeremy Petzold jpetzold at earthlink.net
> Sat May 24 15:55:33 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> I have a Debian laptop and an OS X desktop computer.
> 
> on the Mac I have set up windows file sharing and I have set up print
sharing.
> 
> I then proceded to install samba and komba2 on my system....all set up and 
> komba2 sees mt workgroup and sees the shared printer...it registers it with
> CUPS and everything........
> 
> however, I tried printing and nothing happened. I checked CUPS on the
laptop
> and it siad it could not connect to the remote printer...
> 
> I tried setting up a new printer in cups and everything seemed ok, CUPS
said
> that it was able to connect and everything.
> 
> so I try printing again....nothing.
> 
> I checked CUPS on the Mac and it did not register any job at all. I saw
that
> the device was pointing to /dev/null on the Mac so I fixed that...still 
> nothing.
> 
> why can I browse the printer in Komba2 but CUPS is getting bad settings?
> 
> what am I doing wrong?

Sorry, Jeremy,

I can't make my mind up from what you say. Maybe it helps if you
look at the HOWTOs here?

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/
> thanks,
> Jeremy
Cheers,
Kurt

Jeremy Petzold jpetzold at earthlink.net wrote on Samba-Digest:
> Sat May 24 16:54:00 GMT 2003
> 
> 
>>
>> Sorry, Jeremy,
>>
>> I can't make my mind up from what you say. Maybe it helps if you
>> look at the HOWTOs here?
>>
>>     http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/
>>
>> > thanks,
>> > Jeremy
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kurt
> 
> well basicly I am trying to set up my OS X machine to be a print server
over
> Samba 
????. No need for Samba here! Debian and Mac OS X boxen can communicate
without Samba, and basically, they can print to each other without Samba too.
> to my Debian Laptop.
Samba or not -- in any case you should know that this will only work if you
install additional packages on Mac OS X (Apple hasn't integrated the
complete
CUPS functionality into Mac OS X; for example the "CUPS browsing" was
configured
away on all Macs I saw):

  * as a very minimum you need to install Ghostscript (this is not shipped
    by Apple). Best is ESP Ghostscript for your purposes.

  * Depending on the printer(s) in question, you need also Gimp-Print and/or
    HPIJS packages (and maybe some more) on Mac OS X.

  * You need a Mac OS X later than 10.2.

You may find all the packages I mentioned in a convenient
"one-click-installer"
*.dmg format here:

   http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/


BTW, you didn't mention the printer type or model. Can you imagine that it
is extremely difficult (lacking the possession of a magical crystal ball)
to give any valuable advice without that info?
> Samba was installed on OS X already and is properly configured. and I can 
> browse my shares from my laptop via Komba2(a KDE based Samba share browser)
> 
> I can see the printer on Komba2, and CUPS shows the printer as well. the 
> problem I am having is that when I print, the jobs just go off into
oblivion.
This is no wonder. Your laptop is likely to send PostScript. Your printer
likely is a non-PostScript model. And the Mac is lacking a PostScript
interpreter (like Ghostscript is).
> I don't get any errors at all
So you know where to look for them?
> and CUPS on my end and on the server end is not 
> showing any jobs.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
>