Need help with smb printing

[Maureen Kelly]

I have installed Fedora Core 4 on a new machine and am generally very
pleased.  However, I am having trouble with printing to an SMB printer.

The print server is an OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business machine
functioning as the primary domain controller for a small network.  This
server supports OS/2, Windows and Linux clients and has worked
flawlessly for several years.

>From the Fedora machine, I can see all of the shares on the server.  If
I issue smbclient -L, the result is:

[root at fedora mok]# smbclient -L coffmx94 -I 192.168.0.18 -U mok%password

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
        A$              Disk      Drive Share for Admin Use
        B$              Disk      Drive Share for Admin Use
        C$              Disk      Drive Share for Admin Use
        D$              Disk      Drive Share for Admin Use
        NETLOGON        Disk      Domain controller share
        IBMLAN$         Disk      OS/2 LAN Server root
        SERVERC         Disk      C Driver of Domain Server
        PRINTER         Printer   Epson Color Stylus 740
        GHOSTPRI        Printer   PostScript interface to Epson
        NECPRINT        Printer   NEC SilentWriter 890

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        COFFMX94

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------

I created network printers using CUPS on the Fedora machine
corresponding to the printers listed above.  I can print test pages
using the graphical print configuration tool, however when I print from
an application, the printing fails.  I set the CUPS debugging level to
debug2, but there was not much information of interest in the log files.
I quote the parts which seem relevant to me below:

These are the parameters from the beginning of the job.

D [...] [Job 21] 
D [   ] [Job 21] Parameter Summary
D [...] [Job 21] -----------------
D [...] [Job 21] 
D [...] [Job 21] Spooler: cups
D [...] [Job 21] Printer: NECPrinter
D [...] [Job 21] PPD file: /etc/cups/ppd/NECPrinter.ppd
D [...] [Job 21] Printer model: NEC SilentWriter LC 890
Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)
D [...] [Job 21] Job title: 
D [...] [Job 21] File(s) to be printed: 
D [...] [Job 21] <STDIN>

This is where the job fails.

D [...] [Job 21] Starting renderer
D [...] [Job 21] JCL: <job data> 
D [...] [Job 21] 
D [...] [Job 21] renderer PID kid4=19860
D [...] [Job 21] renderer command: level=0; /usr/bin/printf "%%!\n%%%% %
%%%\n<</HWResolution[300 300]>>setpagedevice\n<</Duplex
false>>setpagedevice\n"; if [ $level -gt 0 ]; then if [ $level -lt 99 ];
then level=" -dLanguageLevel=$level"; else level=""; fi; gs -q
-dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite$level -sOutputFile=-
-; else cat; fi
E [...] [Job 21] Error writing spool: SUCCESS - 0
D [...] [Job 21] 
D [...] [Job 21] Closing renderer
D [...] [Job 21] KID3 exited with status 0
D [...] [Job 21] Process dying with "error closing *main::STDOUT", exit
stat: 9
D [...] [Job 21] error: Broken pipe (32)
D [...] [Job 21] error closing *main::STDOUT
D [...] [Job 21] KID4 exited with status 9
D [...] [Job 21] Renderer exit stat: 9
D [...] [Job 21] KID3 finished
D [...] [Job 21] Renderer process finished
D [...] [Job 21] Killing process 19859 (KID3)
D [...] [Job 21] Process dying with "Error closing renderer", exit stat:
9
D [...] [Job 21] error: Bad file descriptor (9)
D [...] [Job 21] Error closing renderer
E [...] PID 19855 stopped with status 9!
D [...] UpdateJob: job 21, file 0 is complete.

The first error message above seems to come from the smbspool command
used as the backend.

If I issue smbspool by itself, I receive the same error message.

[root at fedora mok]# smbspool smb://MOK:password@coffmx94/PRINTER 1 user
title 1 '' /usr/share/gimp-print/doc/gimpprint.ps
ERROR: Error writing spool: SUCCESS - 0

(I chose the gimpprint.ps file above just because it is large.)

When I check the spool directory on the server machine, there are files
created, and they look like the beginnings of valid postscript files.
However, each has the same file size: 73728 bytes.  The files end
suddenly in 'midstream'. The size is, of course, a small fraction of the
correct file size and tantalizingly is equal to 9*8192.

I have never had trouble printing to this server before using smb but at
that time I was using RedHat 6.2.  I must be doing something wrong but I
am now at a loss.  Has anyone seen a similar problem?  Does anyone have
any ideas?

Thanks!
Dan Coffman