[cups.general] adding a samba printer of another network

[RSalles]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 19:53 RSalles's cat walking on the keyboard  
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>The smbspool backend needs the server's name (in the WIndows/SMB sense)
>>>>as part of the URI, not the IP addr.
>>>
>>>I've tried with the netbios name (711), but it does not work. I have the
>>>host in the /etc/hosts file, but maybe samba cannot get the netbios of
>>>the other network. Could it be a samba setting?
>>>
>>>Luca
>>
>>You'll nedd a wins server support running in your samba server to have
>>the subnet browsing facility.
>>########################################
>>wins support = yes
>>name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>>interfaces = 192.168.2.1 192.168.3.1
>>; exemple
>>########################################
>>It could help you to get rid of this problem.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I'm going mad. My smb.conf file already contains a name resolve order like the 
> above, and more in specific:
> 
>        name resolve order   = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
>         wins support         = yes
> 
> and my /etc/samba/lmhost file contains:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.2.19    p19
> 192.168.2.11    711
> 
> Now, if I add the printer with the command:
> 
> lpadmin -p hp711 -v smb://711/hp711 -E -c ROTEGLIA
> 
> where 711 is the netbios name and hp711 the printer share, and then try to 
> print:
> echo -en "\n\n\nhello\n\n\n" | /usr/bin/lpr -P hp719
> 
> nothing happens.
> 
> Please, any idea? I'm really going crazy and I need to solve the problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
What the samba log and the cups log says?
If your printer and samba daemon are running in a different subnet 
segments, you must try to print from a host in the same segment as your 
smb daemon first, and your smb.conf must have an entry relaying 
connection to both subnets in the "hosts allow" (in smb.conf) parameter.
Try some connection tests with smbclient (from the linux side) and net 
view (from the win32 side) to make sure it's working before you start to 
print. Make sure you've enabled the "spool" option, if it's a printer 
pluged to a win32 host. If it's a linux host, make sure you have a test 
page printed  via cups web admin interface without any error before proceed.

HTH,

RSalles