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greetings. my problem is i can't print from windows 2000 or windows xp. my solaris box can print fine. on smoking (solaris 10, samba host) smbclient '//smoking/hp2605' -U jgs%password put /etc/motd i get the printout. on windows, this works: echo hiya^L > \\smoking\hp2605 on windows, from M$ word, the print SEEMS to go into the queue. i click on the printer, get the box that supposedly shows me status, and it says the file is getting spooled. but not...

...tings, my hp 2605dn printer using samba as a print spooler from solaris 10 won't print from XP, 2000. i've convinced myself that the windoze boxes ship the print job off to the samba print spooler, but the samba print spooler bitbuckets it. samba 3.0.21b (sun's) solaris 10 printer = hp2605dn windows xp, 2000. using bsd protocol. ping works everywhere, nslookup gives the right answers everywhere. samba file shares work. there is no firewall set up. these machines aren't on the internet, never have been, no plan to put them there. solaris "lp filename" works--the prin...