similar to: CUPS vs lprng

I'm converting my NT 4.0 Print Servers to Samba Print Servers. Which printing system should I be using? LPR, LPRng or CUPS. I would love to have some feedback on the advantages and disadvantages or what the Samba Team recommends as a standard for working wih Samba. In case you need it, my system is SuSE 7 kernel 2.2.16 running under VM on s/390. Thanks, Josh Konkol, CNE MCSE Senior

I'm running Samba 2.27 on RH8 system. I've got samba as the print spooler for Windows XP clients and using winbind as the user validation against my Win2K DC. Permissions on the spool directory are root root with the sticky bit on. Clients can delete their own jobs from the que, but the spool directory is not being expunged of print jobs and the last job constantly displays in the client

Hello, I've got an rh9 box which i am using for printing. I've got cups configured and my printer is working fine. Originally, i intended to use samba 2.2.x for printing, but then i saw that 3.0 was out so i installed it's rpm instead. My first of many questions, for printing to work correctly, samba and cups, what must be specified in terms of the printing line in smb.conf, bsd or

Hi. I have a debian wheezy with samba 3.6.6-6. Before updating to wheezy I had samba configured with LPRNG printing. Now I can't use the printers, it looks like samba is trying to connect to cups even it is configured with another printing system. This is the error spotted when I try to install the printer in a Windows 7 PC. Windows XP works fine.

Hi, I am working on a print server project where we have ran into a big showstopper. The print server works in a very mixed environment with clients running for example Linux, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, VMS, different Solaris versions and other Unix dialects. The server runs CUPS for printer spooling and Samba to serve the Windows machines. It's the Windows machines that has caused most

OK, I've tried changing my printcap name from printcap to cups. Printing works fine locally using CUPS on the Samba box. What am I missing here? Why can't I print to the Samba box via the Windows and linux clients? Shared directories work fine. I am really frustrated here and have exhausted Google and all other resources I have. Here's my smb.conf for what it's worth.

I have searched around the samba documentation, including the smb.conf man page, and have found nothing regarding the cups printing system except change printcap to cups. Now, I have done that, but printing still does not work. I need some types of details and a sample smb.conf and/or any other relevant documentation. Thanks much, George D. Plymale

I'm still struggling with this, and people keep asking me why the PDF printer still isn't working...does anyone have any suggestions? -----Original Message----- From: David Brodbeck Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:09 PM To: 'samba@samba.org' Subject: PDF printing problem - can't find Samba's file? I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't figure it out.

> I have problem with finding my printerjobbs in sambas printer queue, > I do se the jobb while it is in /var/spool/samba, but not when the job > has been spooled to LPRngs spool. > > smb.conf > [Global] > printing = lprng > lpq command = /usr/server/LPRng-3.8.21/bin/lpq -P%p > print command = /usr/server/LPRng-3.8.21/bin/lpr -b -P%p <%s ;rm %s > > The

Hi there, I'm newbie in Samba, so I beg for your excuse if my questions are stupid. Is it possible to use Samba as a "paid-for-print" server? If U know something about another free "paid-for-print" software, please let me know. 10x in advance, -- Julian

I've not been able to get Samba to print to a Lexmark Z53. If I call it a Z52, the driver uploads (to where, I have no idea so I can't check it) but I still can't get anything out of the printer.

On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:08, samba-request@lists.samba.org wrote: > Message: 29 > Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:29:23 -0500 > From: Don Meyer <dlmeyer@uiuc.edu> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Print Cost Capture > To: "Samba User's List" <samba@samba.org> [...] > The catch is that it was written around LPRng. ? A couple times now, > I have

I have a redhat 9 server I would like to migrate (install Centos on a new machine, and move the necessary files) to Centos 5. On the RH9 machine, I use LPRng for printing. This was mainly choosen because it makes it easy to control access to the printers using /etc/lpd.perms, something I never figured out how to do in cups. All printer queues are raw printers, the printer driver in Windows takes

Hi I updated samba today to 3.0.5. Printing stopped working. The log says: [2004/08/02 14:28:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printer_fn(108) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt I'm using lprng not cups. Is samba ignoring printing = lprng? I tested lpr it still works as usual. Is there anything else I should check? Thanks. Best, Hans

Trying to get one Samba server to serve several printers through CUPS and host a virtual PDF "printer" at the same time. I've gotten them working separately, but not together, and I think I know why. In the smb.conf man page under "print command": "With printing = cups, and if SAMBA is compiled against libcups, any manually set print command will be ignored."

hi you all, I had this problem for a long time and with different versions of SAMBA and LPRng: using '/usr/spool/lp/bin/lpr -r -Fl -m%m -J"%J" -U%U -P%p %s' as 'print command' results in two jobs in the queue window on the NT box, though there is only one job in the unix queue. using '/usr/spool/lp/bin/lpr -r -Fl -m%m -U%U -P%p %s' works fine, but delete

Hi All, We appear to have a CUPS problem that is breaking our (LPRng) based printing. We now have loads of errors of the form:_ [2007/03/08 12:21:36, 0, pid=23877] printing/print_cups.c:cups_cache_reload(85) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused filling up the log.smbd file We using printing=lprng in smb.conf, and there isn't (nor has there ever been) any

> SV: [Samba] Trouble with CUPS/SAMBA - Solved > Bo Mellberg bo.mellberg at jolife.se > Mon Jun 23 18:21:05 GMT 2003 > > > I solved the problem by using: > Which versions of CUPS and Samba are you using? And are you *really* still using the "cupsomatic"-PPD from Linuxprinting.org for that *PostScript*-printer?? > [global] > printing = cups >

At work I am attempting to set up Wine (20050725 with Sidenet) on an application server with Red Hat 8.0, and the programs we need are working well. However, the server has 28 printer queues for printers scattered around the network, and is running LPRng. I found documentation about creating printer ports that are tied to specific queues, but I haven't found any sensible means to make

Which printing mnechansim works best with Samba? CUPS or BSD? I suspect that BSD support in Samba is not the greatest. Regards, Joe -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # Penguinix Consulting # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Software development, QA and testing. # #