[nflug] Samba 3 and Cups

[Justin Bennett]

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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