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Old 01-10-2005, 10:19 PM   #1
basketkase999
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Unhappy SAMBA Printing


I have setup a linux box running RHL 9 as a server for a network i have in my home. The rest of the machines are running Windows XP. I setup the file server portion with relatively no problems. I can't get the printer portion however. I have and Epson Photo Stylus 925 connected via usb. I setup the printer on the linux box and it has no problems printing jobs from the box. I tried to send a print job through one of my XP machines, and it refuses to cooperate. I have seen examples online of a working smb.conf file, but those settings do not work for me. The print spool on the samba server is set to /var/spool/samba . Can someone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance.
 
Old 01-10-2005, 11:49 PM   #2
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i think it's best to set an extra config for the printer (give it a second name) and make it "raw" then install the drivers that come with it on all the windows machines and use it from them that way.

example : you have in /etc/printcap an extra line
raw|raw:rm=servername:rp=raw:

then in smb.conf in global
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = /etc/printcap

and in the
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
printable = yes
use client driver = yes

on the windows machines should be called "raw on server" "\\server\raw\" and use the driver you installed


it's kind of a complicated thng to talk about but you get what i'm saying
 
Old 01-10-2005, 11:57 PM   #3
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in the line :
raw|raw:rm=servername:rp=raw

what do i put under servername (localhost.localhost, Samba Server, etc)?
 
  


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