Fedora 3 - Windows 2000 - HP PSC 950

[Anonymous]

> doyleed at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > For a couple years I have been running RH9 on a HP Pavilion 9900.  My only printer is a HP PSC950 connected to a home made machine running Windows 2000.  Printing was never a problem.  Setting up the Windows networked printer under CUPS after a initial install of RH9 was no problem.
> >
> > Recently I installed Fedora Core 3 from scratch on the HP Pivilion.  The install appeared to go without a hitch, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to print to the PSC950 which is still connected to the same home made  windows machine.
> >
> > When I attempt to print anyhting, be it a test page, a application, or even df | lpr, nothing at all happens. However, in the printer queue, I see the following:
> >
> >  Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
> > "ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess (Invalid open mode.) opening remote file Test Page"
> > Device URI: smb://192.168.1.100/HP900
> >
> > Any suggestions of what I should read, or post back to you to help reslove this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ed doyleed at gmail.com
>
> It seems to be an issue of the smb backend (the smbspool utility that
> comes
> with SAMBA). What versions are you running?
> Perhaps you try s smbspool from an older SAMBA version.
>
> Helge
>
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> Helge Blischke
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Hi Helge,

I don't know how to determine the versions of smbspool, but I renamed smbspool from the non working fedora core to smbspool_fedora and copied the older smbspool from my working redhat installation to /usr/bin.  The two files are much different in size.

[root at localhost bin]# ls -l smbspool*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 490840 Feb 12 10:56 smbspool
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 734788 Dec 17 22:23 smbspool_fedora

However, doing this had no effect on the problem. I still get the error messsage

"ERRDOS - ERRbadaccess opening remote file Test Page"

In the error.log file, I see the following:

[root at localhost cups]# tail error_log
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] CloseClient: 9
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] ReadClient: 7 GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] SendError: 7 code=404 (Not Found)
D [12/Feb/2005:11:25:44 -0500] CloseClient: 7
[root at localhost cups]#

I have diff'd the comf files from the old working RH9 installation and the non working Fedora installation, and I can't find any difference.

Thanks for any further attention you can give to this problem.

Regards

Ed