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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