Hello,
I am using samba to acces a printer on my Linux server from Windows XP
Home SP2 clients.
It was working very well until yesterday evening. Since yesterday, I can
print from the server (with cups) but I can't print from the Windows
clients.
And all the shared folders are still OK. There is only printing from
Windows clients which doesn't work.
We changed nothing on the server neither on the client side.
When I try to print a test page from Windows, I get the following error:
Unable to create a print task
I tried the following things :
Uninstall then reinstall printer from the windows client
Uninstall then reinstall printer from the server
reboot the server
I always have the problem
Here is a part of my /etc/smb.conf
[printers]
comment = All Printers
valid users = user gp pm cm
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
public = no
writable = no
printable = yes
I don't know where to search. I tried Ethereal but it is to complex for me.
Does anybody experienced this problem ? If no, where and what can I
start to search ?
THank you for any help,
Jean Lee
On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Jean Lee wrote:> Hello, > > I am using samba to acces a printer on my Linux server from Windows XP > Home SP2 clients. > It was working very well until yesterday evening. Since yesterday, I > can print from the server (with cups) but I can't print from the > Windows clients. > And all the shared folders are still OK. There is only printing from > Windows clients which doesn't work. > We changed nothing on the server neither on the client side. > > When I try to print a test page from Windows, I get the following > error: > Unable to create a print task > > I tried the following things : > > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the windows client > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the server > reboot the server > > I always have the problem > > Here is a part of my /etc/smb.conf > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > valid users = user gp pm cm > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = no > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print > public = no > writable = no > printable = yes > > I don't know where to search. I tried Ethereal but it is to complex > for me. > > Does anybody experienced this problem ? If no, where and what can I > start to search ? > > THank you for any help, > > Jean Lee >Did you happen to install the latest round of patches from Microsoft on Tuesday? -- David Schlenk Operating Systems Analyst Bethel University Saint Paul, Minnesota david-schlenk@bethel.edu
Jean, I am guessing from the information that you have provided that there may be a Samba spool directory permissions problem. What are the permissions on /var/spool/samba? They should be set to: drwxrwxrwt which is achieved by: chmod 02777 /var/spool/samba - John T. On Thursday 13 January 2005 02:32, Jean Lee wrote:> Hello, > > I am using samba to acces a printer on my Linux server from Windows XP > Home SP2 clients. > It was working very well until yesterday evening. Since yesterday, I can > print from the server (with cups) but I can't print from the Windows > clients. > And all the shared folders are still OK. There is only printing from > Windows clients which doesn't work. > We changed nothing on the server neither on the client side. > > When I try to print a test page from Windows, I get the following error: > Unable to create a print task > > I tried the following things : > > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the windows client > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the server > reboot the server > > I always have the problem > > Here is a part of my /etc/smb.conf > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > valid users = user gp pm cm > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = no > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print > public = no > writable = no > printable = yes > > I don't know where to search. I tried Ethereal but it is to complex for me. > > Does anybody experienced this problem ? If no, where and what can I > start to search ? > > THank you for any help, > > Jean Lee-- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.