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...is the modified smbprint script with documentation. In searching the archives of this list and others, FAQs, web-sites, etc., I never saw an explanation of how to deal with the weirdness of AIX printing while using smbclient. Well, I'm not claiming it's perfect, but here goes. Alan alan@chelz.com --------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/ksh # smbprint (for AIX): Print files from a UNIX system running samba to # a printer shared on another smb serving machine. # # Since AIX doesn't use a standard printcap file, this script is modified #...

...lp in this. I just need to get past this to get printing to a Windows client off an AIX box going. Successful and unsuccessful connects are below... Once I get this going, I will post what I did to get aix printing going from unix to Windows (assuming people are interested)... Thanks Alan alan@chelz.com The successful smbclient: [thecult:alan:476] smbclient '\\tktsrv02\alan' Added interface ip=172.20.23.37 bcast=172.20.23.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /usr/local/lib/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory Got a positive name query response from...

...amba 1.9.18p8 is not handling the different level of communcation correctly. Anyone run into this before with that level of samba on AIX? Nothing appears weird in the default debugging level, but I will be cranking it up if I don't find the answer quickly :-) Thanks ahead of time! Alan alan@chelz.com

...edit the registry on our NT servers to turn off access to oplocks because the first Microsoft Office files that started getting created there were getting all messed up to (lucky for me I had already run into this in samba). Sorry 'bout the length of this one. Thanks for your help. Alan alan@chelz.com