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Hi all, I set up a samba server as PDC and counfigured one local printer connected to the samba server's parallel port and another jetdirect pritner with ip 192.168.0.10:9100 using the CUPS WEB INERFACE. Both were working fine and I could print from windwos clients also. Samba server was configured on a test system. So saturday evening I shutdown the system and today when I started the

Hi all, Hope some could help me out with my problem. The following is part of my smb.conf. logon drive = Q: logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon home = \\%L\%U logon script = scripts/%g.bat I have a <groupname>.bat file for each group and that basically maps each users home directory and a common directory of that group. Bellow is a script for group ma and name of the script is ma.bat.

Hi, can I map LPT1: to a command e.g. "|lpr" How can I use this? From my applications I only see the printers from my CUPS. How can I use a pritner like LPT1: now I'm using Wine 1.1.9 Regards, Shanku

Hi, In the wine config file there is a spooler section where I can map LPT1: to a command e.g. "|lpr" How can I use this? From my applications I only see the printers from my CUPS. How can I use a pritner like LPT1: Regards, Abdul-Wahid

I have my network printer configured under Samba. When I logon to W2K, I can see the printer, but I am unable to open the printer to spool files. I get the message that I must install the pritner driver in order for it to work. ANy suggestions? Joe -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # "Don't fear the penguin!" #

Well.. okay. Only printers. I am still having issues (pains, actually) getting my pritner shares to work from either Linux OR Windows 2000. One of the things I see here is that the majority of users use CUPS as the printing daemon. From my previous Unix experieince, I have gravitated towards BSD as my printing daemon. Could this be the reason I am having trouble> Does Samba work better with

I have samba running on RH 9 as a PDC. I want to print from teh windows box to the Linux machine... excerpt from smb.conf: [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/cups/ browseable = yes public = yes printable = yes writeable = yes excerpt from printcap:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have done this before, but for the life of me cannot get it to work today. I am trying to setup SAMBA to allow non-technical users (one per site) to add printer drivers as needed. I am running Samba 3.0.24. Following are the relevant entries from smb.conf. # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name pid directory = /var/run/ workgroup = BACKUPS

First allow me to issue this disclaimer... The following problem is most likely due to my own ignorance. Now on to the problem... I'm setting up some printer shares that allow automatic driver installation to Win 9x clients [printer$]. When we try to use these, the drivers install beautifully, but we get the following error message when we try to print: "There was an error writing to