Samba printing problem

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Wed Jan 14 17:22:09 UTC 2004


The short question is this. I've added a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer 
to my Fedora system. How do I share this printer with Samba?

Now let me apologize for the long, rambling and vague nature of the rest 
of this post. Unfortunately, that represents my understanding of the 
printing and sharing processes.

As I said, I added a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer to my Fedora system. 
It attaches with USB. I already had an Epson Stylus Photo attached by 
parrallel cable. I am able to print to both printers locally. I am able 
to print to the Epson remotely. However, I've been unable to print to 
the Samsung remotely.

I tried printing the same document to both printers from a Win2k laptop. 
Here's what I got in the CUPS error log:

I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Job 262 queued on 'ml-1710' by 'andrew'.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11195) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11196) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/ppmtospl2 (PID 11197) for job 262.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 
(PID 11198) for job 262.
W [14/Jan/2004:10:48:46 -0600] [Job 262] Media tray empty!

I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Job 263 queued on 'stylusphoto' by 'andrew'.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11202) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11203) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 11204) for job 263.
I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started backend 
/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 11205) for job 263.
 

The media tray is not empty on the ml-1710. I can turn around and print 
to it sucessfully locally. It seems like CUPS doesn't really know about 
the ML-1710.

When I installed the software from Samsung, it installed something 
called the Linux Printing Package. This seems to replace lpr. When 
printing from applications, it throws up a window after all the 
application printing windows and I make the choice of the printer there. 
I'm wondering if this is somehow interfering with the Samba sharing.

If it's not apparent, I really don't know how to approach this problem. 
Any suggestions on tracks to follow, logs to track down, anything would 
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson







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