[nflug] Samba 3 and Cups

[Cyber Source]

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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