Samba and Printing

kluu te linuxpower at operamail.com
Sun Oct 24 05:47:29 UTC 2004


I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you will print from a windows XP or similar, you must give the path in the windoze printer setup http://<samba host ip.eks 192.168.x.x>:631/printers/<your printer name eks. hpxx>
I presume you have cups installed. 631 is the cups port.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Alejandro Calbazana" <acalbaza at calbazana.com>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Samba and Printing
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:37:12 -0400

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with printing to a Samba printer... I see my print jobs
> spool but I can not get them to print!  I've been able to print directly to
> the printer using lpr -P %p %s, but when I send the job over through Samba,
> the file spools, windows notifies of printing, but nothing prints.
> 
> I've checked access on the spool directory... The necessary permissions are
> there.
> 
> I am running:
> Samba 2.2.7a
> RH 9 2.4
> HP Photosmart 7550 printer
> 
> My smb.conf file:
> 
>    [global]
>            server string = Samba Running %v
>            socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>            keep alive = 30
>            print command =  lpr -P %p %s
>           lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq %p
>           ;debug level = 4
>           use client driver = yes
> 
>      [printers]
>           comment = Printers
>           path = /tmp
>           printable = yes
>           browseable = no
>           create mode = 0700
> 
> [HPPS7550]
>          comment = HP Photosmart 7550
>           printer = HP_Photosmart_7550
>           path = /tmp
>           printable = yes
>           browseable = no
>           printable = yes
>           use client driver = yes
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alejandro
> 
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