samba - Jun 2004 - smbspool to Windows 2000 Server: "ERRgeneral opening remote file"

Hi,

I am trying to print from my Debian unstable Notebook to a printer
that is connected to a Windows 2000 Server. Target environment is CUPS
which uses smbspool as a front-end, and smbspool gives a strange error
message.

|  export DEVICE_URI="smb://account:password@domain/server/printer"
|  smbspool foo bar Title 1 ignore Makefile
gives the error message
|  ERROR: ERRHRD - ERRgeneral (General failure.) opening remote file Title

Same thing happens with
|  export DEVICE_URI="smb://domain\account:password@server/printer"

When I use a different (wrong) password, the error message changes to
access denied, so I believe the account is OK.

When I boot my notebook with windows, I can print to that printer with
the account in question. So the Windows people say that the server is
fine.

Am I doing something wrong with smbspool?

Any hints will be appreciated.

I will be on site again on Friday, so I won't reply to answers until I
have tried what you suggested.

Greetings
Marc

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hi Marc,

I had that problem a few days ago, I solved by on the win2k machine
in the Printer properties, go to the "Advance" Tab check if you dont
have
selected "Print directly to the printer" and select "Spool
print..."
and it should work, at least for me it worked :-)

regards,
-- RNuno


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Subject: [Samba] smbspool to Windows 2000 Server: "ERRgeneral opening
remotefile"


Hi,

I am trying to print from my Debian unstable Notebook to a printer
that is connected to a Windows 2000 Server. Target environment is CUPS
which uses smbspool as a front-end, and smbspool gives a strange error
message.

|  export DEVICE_URI="smb://account:password@domain/server/printer"
|  smbspool foo bar Title 1 ignore Makefile
gives the error message
|  ERROR: ERRHRD - ERRgeneral (General failure.) opening remote file Title

Same thing happens with
|  export DEVICE_URI="smb://domain\account:password@server/printer"

When I use a different (wrong) password, the error message changes to
access denied, so I believe the account is OK.

When I boot my notebook with windows, I can print to that printer with
the account in question. So the Windows people say that the server is
fine.

Am I doing something wrong with smbspool?

Any hints will be appreciated.

I will be on site again on Friday, so I won't reply to answers until I
have tried what you suggested.

Greetings
Marc

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:52:14PM +0200, Marc Haber
wrote:
> |  export
DEVICE_URI="smb://account:password@domain/server/printer"
> |  smbspool foo bar Title 1 ignore Makefile
> gives the error message
> |  ERROR: ERRHRD - ERRgeneral (General failure.) opening remote file Title
> 
> Same thing happens with
> |  export
DEVICE_URI="smb://domain\account:password@server/printer"
> 
> When I use a different (wrong) password, the error message changes to
> access denied, so I believe the account is OK.
> 
> When I boot my notebook with windows, I can print to that printer with
> the account in question. So the Windows people say that the server is
> fine.
Trying to print with smbclient gives the same error message, and
smbclient's queue command gives no output while there are jobs in the
queue that should be displayed.

An strace of smbclient suggests that the error message is indeed
generated from and error code returned by the server (but the error
message is not in the server's answer in clear text, so I suspect some
error number that is translated to the clear text on the client).

The system log on the Windows box doesn't attract any special attention.

Any more hints what to try?

Greetings
Marc

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