[nflug] Samba 3 and Cups

[Justin Bennett]

no, in the smb.conf file.

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade Inc.
Clarence, NY
716-631-0100



Cyber Source wrote:
> 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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