I have 2 printer queues setup on my samba 3.0.6 NT4-style PDC. About a month ago, one of them stopped working due to an issue with CUPS. After restarting CUPS, printing to that share was giving Access Denied. From a windows box, I was able to add drivers and set default print settings as a domain administrator but I still couldn't print. I created a new printer share pointing at the same CUPS printer with the same configuration and the new one worked. In my smb.conf snippet below, the non-working printer share had the same settings as 'jetdirect' but with the printer of 'minimike'. 'jetdirect' has never given me a problem and 'minimike' worked from the moment I created the share. The current 'minimike' settings are scaled down from what it was when I first created it. Can anyone think of a reason why this would happen? [jetdirect] printer = jetdirect comment = Hallway printer printable = yes writeable = yes public = yes printer admin = @domainadmins guest ok = yes [minimike] printer = hp4200 printable = yes read only = no printer admin = @domainadmins -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548
Is the samba spool directory the same for both printers? Andrew Gaffney wrote:> I have 2 printer queues setup on my samba 3.0.6 NT4-style PDC. About a > month ago, one of them stopped working due to an issue with CUPS. > After restarting CUPS, printing to that share was giving Access > Denied. From a windows box, I was able to add drivers and set default > print settings as a domain administrator but I still couldn't print. I > created a new printer share pointing at the same CUPS printer with the > same configuration and the new one worked. > > In my smb.conf snippet below, the non-working printer share had the > same settings as 'jetdirect' but with the printer of 'minimike'. > 'jetdirect' has never given me a problem and 'minimike' worked from > the moment I created the share. The current 'minimike' settings are > scaled down from what it was when I first created it. Can anyone think > of a reason why this would happen? > > [jetdirect] > printer = jetdirect > comment = Hallway printer > printable = yes > writeable = yes > public = yes > printer admin = @domainadmins > guest ok = yes > > [minimike] > printer = hp4200 > printable = yes > read only = no > printer admin = @domainadmins >