[nflug] Samba 3 and Cups

[Justin Bennett]

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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