[nflug] Samba 3 and Cups

[Cyber Source]

Justin Bennett wrote:
> ok, do you use a "printcap name ="  line when your doing cups?
>
>
> Justin Bennett
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
> Clarence, NY
> 716-631-0100
>
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> Justin Bennett wrote:
>>> thanks for the info. There isn't anything in the cups log, I can 
>>> turn the log level up. If I blow away the .tdb's will I need to 
>>> restart samba as well of just cups?
>>>
>>>
>>> Justin Bennett
>>> Network Administrator
>>> Dynabrade Inc.
>>> Clarence, NY
>>> 716-631-0100
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>> Justin Bennett wrote:
>>>>> Hey Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>>    I just switch a server over to Redhat 3ES (was 2.1) redhat 2.1 
>>>>> was using samba 2.2 and the good old LPR printing system, Redhat 3 
>>>>> is samba 3 with CUPS. After a little messing around  I got 
>>>>> everything working pretty well, except every now and then I'll try 
>>>>> to print something and get an error that "can't start print job". 
>>>>> It will happen at different times, every 4th print, every 20th, 
>>>>> ect. Initially I thought I was running into the CUPS limit for 
>>>>> connections per host (since their all comming from localhost via 
>>>>> samba), I upped that to 10 million or something. It seems to 
>>>>> co-incide with an entries in /var/log/messges:
>>>>>
>>>>> Permission denied-- user not allowed to delete, pause, or resume 
>>>>> print job. User name:xxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>> This from what I gather is because I'm not listed was a printer 
>>>>> admin, but that's ok, I'm just printing, not deleteing or 
>>>>> anything.   Unless windows 2k is trying to do something in the 
>>>>> background with the queue. This is the first time I'm messed with 
>>>>> allowing windows to see the print queue. with options:
>>>>>
>>>>> my printers section
>>>>> [printers]
>>>>> comment = All Printers
>>>>> path = /var/spool/samba
>>>>>        print ok = yes
>>>>>        guest ok = no
>>>>>        lpq command   =      /usr/bin/lpq  -P%p
>>>>>        use client driver = yes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if this is causing it, I can't restart samba at the 
>>>>> moment, and a pkill -HUP doesn't seem to cut it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any one had any similar problems with cups and samba 3?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Justin
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Justin Bennett
>>>>> Network Administrator
>>>>> Dynabrade Inc.
>>>>> Clarence, NY
>>>>> 716-631-0100
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Cups should have it's own log info in /var/log/cups, you should 
>>>> have a look at the error logs in there and probably more so the 
>>>> entries in /var/log/samba/offendingmachineiporhostname.log.
>>>> Also, I have had the samba printing database get corrupted from 
>>>> time to time and have had to delete the entries in /var 
>>>> /cache/samba/printing. A restart of cups will put back the 
>>>> necessary *.tdb files in that directory. Below is my very open 
>>>> stanza for printing in samba and I have never had a problem so long 
>>>> as I had the correct driver loaded on the windows box. If you need 
>>>> help with that, I have found many tricks over the years to do such 
>>>> a thing as driver disks today love to bury that freakin driver 
>>>> inside their bloatware and I have also learn (because of vmware) 
>>>> how to make many printers not designed to be network printers, 
>>>> network printers. Good thing my hair grows back fast though ;)
>>>> [printers]
>>>>   comment = All Printers
>>>>   path = /var/spool/samba
>>>>   browseable = yes
>>>>   guest ok = yes
>>>>   writable = yes
>>>>   printable = yes
>>>>   public = yes
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>> I don't think that's necessary but it wouldn't hurt.
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?. As in an options for cups file locations? I just always stuck with 
the defaults, saw no reason to do otherwise.
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