I am trying to print from Win98 to a Mandrake Linux system running Samba (2.2 I think). One printer works and one doesn't.

The Samba server has 2 print queues: "HP960" and "Gray". Both work when printing locally from the Linux system.

On the Win98 system, both of these printers are visible in Network Neighborhood.
I've set up queues for them: "Prism HP960" points to "\\Prism\hp960" and "Prism Gray" points to "\\PRISM\Gray". I'm not sure why Windows is choosing that particular combination of upper and lower case, and I don't know if that's significant, but I can't change it on the Win98 system (when I try to fix it, it sets it back).

From Win98, "Prism HP960" works and "Prism Gray" doesn't. If I try to print a test page to "Prism Gray", it immediately produces an error: "Windows was unable to print the test page. ..."

Also annoying (and probably related): When I look at the properties of the 2 printers in Win98, "Prism HP960" shows 6 tabs of information (General, Details, ..., Setup, ..., Advanced), "Prism Gray" shows only 2 (General and Details).

Any suggestions as to how to get "Prism Gray" to print to queue "Gray" on the linux system?

Thanks in advance,
- TSloth

Here is /etc/samba/smb.conf:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from localhost (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/03/22 10:35:01

# Global parameters
[global]
netbios name = PRISM
server string = Samba server %v
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
unix password sync = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = lpstat
dns proxy = No
hosts allow = 192.168.1.
printing = cups

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic PostScript on clients).
lpq command = lpstat -o %p
lprm command = cancel %p-%j
browseable = No

I wonder if it has to do with the uppercase/lowercase of the print queue names, since the queue that works is all uppercase/numeric. I see in "man smb.conf" that there are several parameters that deal with case, but the docs seem to be unclear to me. Can anyone enlighten me as to what should work best with Win98?

- TSloth

This might be of help :

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and...h_windows.html

You may need to add: use client driver = yes to you smb.conf file.