[TriLUG] Samba Printing Help

[Kevin Flanagan]

Brian,


	Do you have to use SAMBA, as was mentioned about one config recently
that was the other direction, SAMBA and printing is a PITA.  If you can
use LPR printing for the apps in question you are much more likely to
have success.   You will need to install tcp printing on your XP system,
but after that it should be a piece of cake.  From system-config-printer
you just tell it to use the computer name of the xp box, assuming you
have DNS, or the IP address if not, where it asks for server, and then
the queue name where it says port.  

I believe that this configuration will work just fine, and cause you
fewer headaches.  It should be transparent to your Linux apps, as well
as Windows ones.



Good luck,



	Kevin

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:56 -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>   I'm trying to map a printer that's shared from an XP-Pro box, on our FC2 
> linux server (so that I can print faxes received by mgetty).  I have Samba 
> working, at least in the direction of mapping shares that are hosted on the 
> Linux box.  Problem is, I can't seem to go back the other way; I can't get a 
> working connection to any resources hosted on our XP machines.
>   Going through system-config-printers worked reasonably well, when I 
> supplied an IP instead of the Windows name of the computer with the printer, 
> up until the point of printing a test page.  Here's what the error log said:
> E [29/Oct/2004:10:38:20 -0400] [Job 1] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will 
> retry in 60 seconds...ERROR:  Connection failed with error 
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> Output of smbclient -L isn't all-systems-normal either, and looks like this:
> 
> [brian at mail-serv cups]$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.33
> Password:
> Domain=[D80HM141] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> 
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
>         print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
>         share           Disk
>         ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
>         C$              Disk      Default share
> session request to 192.168.1.33 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
> Domain=[D80HM141] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> 
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
> 
> I'm not specifying any password when prompted, because the target host 
> doesn't have any set.  (Don't blame me, it's not my doing!...)  I never have 
> to supply a username or password when mapping the printer on other XP boxen. 
> So...  Something's obviously amiss here.  Could it be a Samba 
> misconfiguration?  I also get reports of problems contacting the domain 
> master browser in Logwatch, but we're not even running a domain.  It is also 
> entirely possible that all of our XP boxen have their network name settings 
> stupidly configured; it was way before I ever arrived here and I wouldn't be 
> surprised if the person who did it had no clue what he was doing.  I find it 
> strange that the hostname (D80HM141) shows up as "Domain=".
> 
> Thanks as always for all the help!
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Brian
> 
> 
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> Brian A. Henning
> Strutmasters.com
> 866.597.2397
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> 
> 
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Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>