Re: [Samba] Samba Cups Windows 98 Raw Printing - need help

I have used both with and without '_' and I am still unable to get Samba CUPS printing to work... in either direction (linux <-> W2K). I can even get smbclient printing to work.

Joe

Craig White wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:03 -0700, Dave Sheckells wrote:
> > Hello -
> > I am trying to use Samba and Cups to serve a file share and a "raw"
> > printer to a Windows 98 client. I am using Gentoo Linux, kernel
> > 2.6.12, Samba 3.0.14a, and Cups 1.1.23. I can access the data share
> > from the Samba server, but the printer share does not show up when I
> > try to use it, even if I specifically type in the name of the share
> > (\\data_dog\win98_photosmart) it still doesn't work.
> >
> > I had this working with this laptop and a "practice" file server I
> > had, the hard drive died in that machine, so I've set up my new file
> > server and I can't get this to work.
> >
> > Before I had either of the file servers I had installed the printer
> > directly on this laptop. When I set up the "practice" file server I
> > was able to make it work by changing the port the printer used from
> > it's own usb to the printer share, \\data_dog\win98_photosmart (to
> > change the printer port in Win 98 you go to the detail tab of the
> > printer properties
dialog box).
> >
> > I have been trying every different samba and cups option I could
> > google for the last week. Please look over my smb.conf and cupsd.conf
> > and tell me where I'm going wrong.
> >
> > data_dog ~ # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
> > [global]
> > netbios name = data_dog
> > workgroup = sheckellfield
> > server string = samba %v on %L
> > security = user
> > encrypt passwords = yes
> > wins support = yes
> > local master = yes
> > os level = 128
> > log level = 3
> > log file = /var/log/samba.log
> > max log size = 50
> > hosts allow = 192.168.0.
> > read only = no
> > printing = cups
> > printcap = cups
> > load printers = yes
> >
> > [data]
> > path = /srv/samba/data_share
> > comment = %S on %L
> > volume = data_share
> > create mask = 0660
> > directory mask = 0770
> > force create mode = 0660
> > force directory mode = 0770
> >
> > [win98_photosmart]
> > comment = HP Photosmart 7150
> > printer = win98_photosmart
> > path = /var/spool/samba/win98_photosmart
> > browseable = yes
> > guest ok = yes
> > writable = no
> > printable = yes
> > printer admin = root, @wheel
> > use client driver = yes
> ----
> maybe it's just me but I've had problems using the underscore in machine
> names and have resorted to only letters/numbers/hyphens
>
> Craig
>
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