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Old 11-19-2003, 01:51 PM   #1
shuwar
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Win98->Samba->Cups-HP656C printing problem


Hi

I'm trying to print documents to my HP656C which is attached to linux box, from my windows box. At this point everything seems to be ok, exept that pages which come out from printer are blank. Printer behaves as if it was printing but there no atrament on the paper. Just as if there was no ink in the printer, which obviously is there and "local jobs" get printed correctly. What can be possibly wrong?

Here's my specs:
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1. Printer is configured with cups (1.1.19) with foomatic. No problems with printing. Additionaly the mime.convs and mime.types have the "application/octet" lines uncommented to support windows raw format.

2. Samba is 2.2.8a. Printer shows up in "neighbourhood". I'm able to print through "print" command withing "smbclient". Here's conf:
[global]
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = cups
load printers = yes

[printers]

browseable = yes
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest account = smbprint
path=/tmp
print command = /usr/bin/lpr-cups -l -r -P hp %s

3. On the windows side original HP drivers are installed.

Where should I look for a problem? How to get any debug?
 
Old 11-22-2003, 10:54 AM   #2
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You have printer drivers installed in the linux box.

You need to configure win98 to use a network print share--it doesn't in that case use the drivers, it assumes (rightly so) that the host of the share is providing a print spooler and drivers to run the printer. (There will still be a spooler on the windows box to hold temporary copies of the documents to feed to the print-share--the assumption in that case is that the network printer-share may be busy, and you really don't want to wait around for it to accept the print-job.)

You also need to set up linux to provide the service necessary to share its printer. SMB is part of that, but the other part has to be set up.

Hope that give you a direction to look for.

Also, I am confused by your path to /tmp. (It may be correct, but double check your docs to be sure.) Print spoolers are in /var/spool.


I'm not looking everything up--I have to go.

Last edited by Eqwatz; 11-22-2003 at 10:58 AM.
 
  


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