On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 11:59 -0700, Sean Roe wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> has anybody got any experience with lprng and samba?  I have lprng
> working so I can print from the localhost and samba is working as I
> can attach shares and all. but when I try to setup a printer in samba,
> I am having no real progress.  I am running LPRng-3.8.A and
> samba-3.2.0-1 on Fedora core 9 machine.  The printer is printing fine
> with lp.  here is the printcap entry:
> 
>   lp1|printer \
>   |lp \
>   :force_localhost \
>   :server \
>   :cm=Canon I560 \
>   :lp=/dev/lp0 \
>   :ppd=/usr/local/lib/bj8pa06n.ppd \
>   :if=/usr/bin/foomatic-rip \
>   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0 \
>   :mx=0:sh:
> 
> when I send a print job via samba I get the following info from lpq
> 
> Printer: lp1@mustang (originally lp) 'Canon I560'
>  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
>  Server: no server active
>  Status: job 'sean@mustang+837' saved at 10:53:24.612
>  Rank   Owner/ID               Pr/Class Job Files                 Size Time
> error  sean@mustang+837             A   837 ERROR: too many errors
> 
> 
> any ideas?
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what 'print' references to you have in smb.conf ? (i.e. printcap, lp*)
What about the 'printers' share in smb.conf... does the path exist?

Just out of curiousity, why don't you just use cups?

Craig

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