Hello all, I have been using the latest edition of "Using Samba" to set up a Samba server in our local school. Everything has been working great thus far. I've been asked to get printers going, so I thought I would share the printers using Samba, and have the clients 'connect' to the printers and get the drivers from the server. This works fine if I install, say, a HP LaserJet 4 on the local parallel printer port of the server, I can share the printer, the drivers get installed on the clients when I connect, and I can print fine. My problem is in trying to add additional printer ports. Maybe this can't be done, or I have to find an alternate way of doing this. I have 2 HP LaserJet 5Si printers, both are network printers. I don't want to have to install drivers locally on every single machine, so I thought I would try to set up the TCP/IP printer ports and bind the printers to these ports, and all would be wonderful. I go to the server properties dialog, and go to the ports tab, and the generic Samba printer port is available. I click Add..., and follow the APW (Add Port Wizard) right up through the last step (same as I would if I were installing the printer on the machine locally), and click OK -- at this point I get a "Access Denied" dialog. I am using an account with SePrintOperatorPrivelege privileges, as I was able to upload the drivers to the server. Maybe this can not be done this way, and I have to configure the networked printers on the server, I don't know -- I'm relatively new to this. I've searched the web, looked through loads of documentation, and I don't find anything that elaborates on setting up additional printer ports on the server. If anyone has some experience with this and could enlighten me, I'd be forever in your debt :-) Other than this small hurdle, Samba has been fantastic!! Samba Rocks! JP
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Perry wrote:> I click Add..., and follow the APW (Add Port Wizard) right up > through the last step (same as I would if I were installing the printer > on the machine locally), and click OK -- at this point I get a "Access > Denied" dialog. I am using an account with SePrintOperatorPrivelege > privileges, as I was able to upload the drivers to the server. Maybe > this can not be done this way, and I have to configure the networked > printers on the server, I don't know -- I'm relatively new to this. I've > searched the web, looked through loads of documentation, and I don't > find anything that elaborates on setting up additional printer ports on > the server.James, Do you have an "add port command" and "enum ports command" defined in smb.conf? cheers, jerry ====================================================================Samba ------- http://www.samba.org Centeris ----------- http://www.centeris.com "What man is a man who does not make the world better?" --Balian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6rj+IR7qMdg1EfYRAgdoAJ0fMleybw+2ZL0i3syg7yITGEOi8QCgo9oW T8qaA9+NtYbBbqk2PeWCtcA=NUCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
James Perry schrieb:> Hello all,[...] Hello James,> My problem is in trying to add additional printer ports. Maybe this > can't be done, or I have to find an alternate way of doing this. I have > 2 HP LaserJet 5Si printers, both are network printers. I don't want to > have to install drivers locally on every single machine, so I thought I > would try to set up the TCP/IP printer ports and bind the printers to > these ports, and all would be wonderful. I go to the server properties[...] Although my english is a bit limited, I think you have a little missunderstanding here. If you just want to make your network printers available, you will have to add them to your underlying printing system on the samba server. This might be "cups" or another print spooler (try http://localhost:631 in your webbrowser on the samba server). Once you've added this network printer to your server and restarted samba, these printers will be available from your windows clients. Nonetheless they still will use the "Samba Printer Port" as printer port. [...] Samba has no print spooler itself. So the concept of "printer ports" is not neccessary for samba. Bye, Martin