Samba Printing Issue

kkempter · 06-05-2003, 11:09 AM

I am running Red Hat 9.0 and I have a windows 2000 box as well. I have an HP printer configured on the Red Hat box. I have samba configured on the Red Hat box as well.

I want to be able to print from my windows 2K box to the hp printer on the Linux box.

If I type the following from a CMD prompt window on the win 2K box it goes to the printer

echo "Hello" > \Isaiah\OfficeJet_V40

Any Ideas?

zmedico · 06-05-2003, 11:37 AM

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Originally posted by kkempter
If I type the following from a CMD prompt window on the win 2K box it goes to the printer

Did it print or not? If not you have to make sure that samba is running and sharing your printers. Also, make sure that your firewall isn't stopping samba from working.

kkempter · 06-05-2003, 11:39 AM

Yes it did print. However if I navigate to the printer from the "My network places" on the desktop and set it up as a windows printer it does not print

zmedico · 06-05-2003, 11:51 AM

Are you getting any error messages in /var/log/messages?

kkempter · 06-05-2003, 11:57 AM

In the /vat/log/samba/spock.log (spock is the win2K box) it says this:

[2003/06/04 10:41:28, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(655)
Unable to print file to OfficeJet_V40 - client-error-document-format-not-supported

zmedico · 06-05-2003, 12:16 PM

Try using a few different programs to print (maybe notepad). Maybe you have to install the OfficeJet_V40 drivers on your windoows box.

kkempter · 06-05-2003, 12:35 PM

I also see this in the same log:

[2003/05/31 23:07:55, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
read_data: read failure for 4. Error = No route to host

zmedico · 06-05-2003, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kkempter
I also see this in the same log:

[2003/05/31 23:07:55, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
read_data: read failure for 4. Error = No route to host

Did you try to print at that specific time? If not then that error may not be related.

Do you have OfficeJet drivers for Windows and is the printer configured to use them?

Do you have any firewall on either machine?

kkempter · 06-05-2003, 12:49 PM

not sure about the time - I see these errors in the log but I don't see any log activity at the time I to print.

The drivers are loaded on the windows box and both machines are behind a firewall but neither has a firewall locally installed.

zmedico · 06-05-2003, 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by kkempter
not sure about the time - I see these errors in the log but I don't see any log activity at the time I to print.

If there's no time correlation between errors logged and printing then those errors are probably unrelated.

Are you sure you don't have iptables or ipchains firewall rules? You can do "/sbin/chkconfig --list" to see what services are enables/disabled and the firewall configs are located in /etc/sysconfig

kedie · 06-25-2003, 08:55 AM

I had same problem, check privileges of the spool directory. Try to set them to 777 and if it woks then try to tune it so, you have access (under your WIN login).

It solved the problem with my printer.