[Lula] samba printing not working

[Shane Chen]

On 4/19/06, Steve <steve at fpig.net> wrote:
> Hi group,
> I am not able to print from either win2k or winxp clients to a printer
> attached to a linux samba server.  The printer does work; I can print to it
> The samba server is acting as a pdc; the winblows boxen are able to log in and
> access shares on the server ok.  They see the printers and appear to connect

Couple of thoughts.  Sounds like if you can see the printers, that
'printcap name = cups' is probably in your smb.conf.

> to them successfully.  Windows drivers are installed on the clients.  Here

I'm guessing here because I'm not sure what you mean by "Windows
drivers" exactly, but if they're drivers from the printer vendor, that
this is probably your problem.  Once the printer is configured under
CUPS, it's actually responsible for talking to it (and formatting the
pages).  So unless you set up a RAW printer in CUPS and just use it as
a passthrough, what you should do is to install the CUPS Samba printer
driver on your Windows boxes.

You can use `cupsaddsmb` to add the drivers to your Samba server so
that when your Windows clients connect to the printer, the drivers are
automatically downloaded and installed.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Native_Windows_Printing_with_CUPS/Samba

Even though I don't always use Gentoo as a distro, I often refer to
their howtos and documentation with help on other distros.

Shane
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