Samba printing

leonardox · 08-28-2003, 05:47 PM

I have samba 2.2.4 on slack 8.1 and I share the printer wiith some windows win98, XP and 2000 but I cannot print , It gives me an error loke this in the syslog :
tdb(/var/cache/samba/printing.tdb): rec_free_read bad magic 0x26011999 at offset=6012
somebody knows what can I do ?
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this is what I have in smb.cof:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes

[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = no
public = yes

[printers]
path=/var/spool/samba
comment = Impresora en GDL
browseable = yes
printable = yes
public = yes

the permissions in /tmp and /var/spool/samba is 1777

Mathieu · 08-30-2003, 11:49 PM

Which print system are you using ? (cups, lprng, etc)

In the global share, you should have at least the following lines:

Code:

printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = your_print_system