[TriLUG] samba printing.. ugh

[Brian Henning]

Okay.  I got rid of the "Access denied, unable to connect" by turning on 
"writeable = yes" in the smb config (through the help of webmin).

So now Windows seems to merrily throw documents at the share....but 
nothing happens.  As far as I can tell, the documents just vanish.

Here's what else I've done:
I created a "null device" printer in CUPS to match the share; this got 
rid of the "client-error-not-found" messages in Samba.  But I'm afraid 
that somehow CUPS is stepping in and shuffling my documents off to the 
null device before Samba comes along with its print command = 
/usr/share/pdfconvert %s ...  I'm not seeing any files show up where I 
expect them.

So I deleted the CUPS printer and I'm back to "client-error-not-found".

Curiously, in the Printers and Faxes explorer window, I see "Ready" by 
the printer...however, when I open it to view the queue, the queue's 
title bar says "Access denied, unable to connect"...

Anybody have more suggestions?  Nothing I've read so far has even 
mentioned anything about CUPS..  just a Samba trick and nothing else.

Here's the latest version of the Samba juicy bits:

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    browseable = yes
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
    guest ok = yes
    writable = no
    printable = yes

[pdflabels]
         postscript = yes
         printable = yes
         print command = /usr/share/pdfconvert %s
         writeable = yes
         path = /tmp
         create mask = 0744
         comment = Prints to a PDF file on mail-serv



Thanks,
~Brian