Hello
I recently "upgraded" from RedHat 9 to Fedora.
I have always used lprng. I was very disapointed to find that it was removed.
I have tried to share the printers that I have on my linux box. I have 4 windows machines that use my printers. I have an Hp dj600 and an Epson C80 on the linux box.
I have never had any problems shareing them with lprng and samba.
After installing Fedora I learned that I had to use CUPS. I could make my printers work on the linux machine but the windows machines could not print. They would show up in windows explorier but not in the list when you would add a network printer. Nothing I tried seamed to work until I ran across a posting via a web search that indicated a problem in samba 3.0 and it worked with an earlier version of samba. I uninstalled samba and downloaded the samba rpms for samba-2.2.7-5.8.0. I think the samba files used in RedHat 8.0.
Now my HP works fine.
On the windows machines, when you say add printer and select network and browse you see both printers and installs for both seam to work. The Epson still won't print.
In printer configuration both printers are shared. Both work on the linux box.
Samba Config is as follows: workgroup = HOME server string = Samba Server printcap name = cups load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 security = user encrypt passwords = no
obey pam restrictions = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 remote browse sync = 192.168.0.1/25 os level = 33 preferred master = yes wins support = yes dns proxy = no
[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775
[printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes use client driver = yes
[windata] path = /var/data/win95 guest ok = yes writeable = yes printable = no write list = david, cheryl, laniece, cathy, mark create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775
Cups mime.convs has the following line uncommented: application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
mime.types has the following line uncommented: application/octet-stream
cups error log still indicates the following when I try to print to the C80;
E [02/Feb/2004:12:13:22 -0600] print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'!
I [02/Feb/2004:12:13:22 -0600] Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled?
No errors printing to the HP.
There is no entry that shows up in the print queue.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
David Miller
