[cups.general] CUPS and Samba Problem

dtsignup0 at internode.on.net dtsignup0 at internode.on.net
Sat Dec 25 19:16:42 PST 2004


Hi All,

I have a problem that I just can't seem to solve, so hoping
that someone on this list will be able to give me some help.

My situation is I have a printer connected to my server
which runs Samba and cups, and I have this printer being
shared to the network by Samba. The idea is that, regardless
of the OS of the client (windows or linux), I want to access
the printer through Samba. For both the client and server
machines, I am running Fedora Core 3.

It works fine when:
* I do test prints from the server locally,
* from another linux machine, I use smbclient to log into
the server and do a "print <filename>"
however, when I try setting up the printer using cups from
my client machine and printing a test page, it does
absolutely nothing!

Looking at the cups error log, I find that the first two
scenarios work because filters were loaded (log file
following)
I [26/Dec/2004:01:13:05 +0800] Job 8 queued on 'HPDJ3650' by
'tsou-d'.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:13:06 +0800] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 22367) for job 8.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:13:06 +0800] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 22368) for job 8.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:13:06 +0800] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
(PID 22370) for job 8.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:13:06 +0800] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 22371) for job 8.

However, if I try printing a test page from the cups web
admin interface on the client machine, I get no printer
action because it doesn't seem to load those filters (log
file following)
I [26/Dec/2004:01:23:27 +0800] Adding start banner page
"none" to job 9.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:23:27 +0800] Adding end banner page "none"
to job 9.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:23:27 +0800] Job 9 queued on 'HPDJ3650' by
'tsou-d'.
I [26/Dec/2004:01:23:27 +0800] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 24321) for job 9.

If anyone can enlighten me as to what is going on, it would
be very much appreciated.

Thanks!
Dean





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