Samba Printing

CrEsPo · 04-27-2005, 06:52 PM

I have a printing problem. I set up my printer using http://localhost:631 . . . When I print a test page it tells me the smb.conf isn't there.

Is there any site that can help me configure Samba to work with the printer? The only sites I've seen were for just file sharing, Google found me nothing on printing

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gbonvehi · 04-27-2005, 07:05 PM

Copy the file /etc/samba/smb.conf-sample to /etc/samba/smb.conf and edit to suit your needs (I think by only setting the workgroup and printing it should work).

CrEsPo · 04-27-2005, 07:59 PM

Thanks, that seems easy enough. I tried it out, didn't work, but unfortunately something screwed up somewere and now I can't start it up. I was running it off a VM until the weekend when I have time to wipe out my OS.

Hopefully that problem was only in the VM and won't be present when I resintall. I had CUPS configured word for word as in my FC3 install and same with the smb.conf (after changing the workgroup didn't work I figured I could try just a plan copy over from FC3 smb.conf to Slack).

davidsrsb · 04-27-2005, 08:48 PM

Is Samba actually running?
ps -ax will show smbd and nmbd the processes

CrEsPo · 04-27-2005, 09:56 PM

Just fixed the VM

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Alright just checked and Samba is running. Both process are shown (I used ps -ax | grep smbd and nmbd instead of sorting through the list myself), Google is still finding nothing for me

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Do you think it might be because it's a VM? I can get sound and internet to work inside the VM, just not the printing.

CrEsPo · 04-29-2005, 11:35 PM

Well I have Slack as my main OS and I still can't get printing to work via Samba, LPD, IPP, etc. Any idea's?

ComputerErik · 04-30-2005, 08:29 AM

I had been having some problems setting up my printer using Samba too recently. I finaly got it connecting through http://localhost:631 and could print that test page. After that I still wasn't able to print from Linux apps, so I checked around a bit. I ended up going to the KDE printer setup wizard, and found that it wasn't setup to use CUPS. After I selected CUPS as the default everything is working fine.

CrEsPo · 04-30-2005, 09:13 AM

Thanks ComputerErik. I just checked and there was an add printer utility for Gnome. I used that using the exact same settings as I did on http://localhost:631 and it's working now.

Pity I couldn't get it to work through the site

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Thanks everyone for the support

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