HOWTO CUPS+Samba: printing from Windows & Linux

daff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject:

Ok, haven't thought that you could be using the older CUPS version, my bad

I am not sure, but what's the point to use a CUPS printserver if you have a network printer? I guess the idea is automagic download of the printer drivers, but I somehow doubt that this would work. A printer server to provide drivers to clients for another printer server (a network printer is its own printer server if I am not mistaken, not sure about your model)? Sounds a bit weird and a bit too complex for Windows networking, but I've never tried anything like that, so I could be talkin trash here

That's maybe why it makes no difference to have or not have a [toshtest] section as described.

Using CUPS on the client to print to the network printer works of course, that's one of the ideas behind CUPS (we have an Okipage network printer here which works just fine when I use the correct ppd on my Gentoo laptop).

Does the network printer work when you install the correct Windows drivers locally on the clients? What if you connected your printer locally to the CUPS server, add the [toshtest] section and then try connecting to it from the clients?
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olli.bo · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject:

daff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject:

Hm, that's a situation I've never come across so I can only guess

You mean CUPS sees the printer just like it was a local printer? Then of course it should be theoretically possible to serve it just like a local printer. Which driver did you use for that Toshiba printer to make it look like a local one?
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olli.bo · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject:

mold · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

I finally got it to work, thanks Daff.
I had to run the Adobe installer and copy the files over from a Windows temporary directory *before finishing the installer.*
As far as I can tell, if you let the installer run through completely, you will not find the files on a W2k machine. That is because the files the installer program actually installs are not the ones mentioned in the cupsaddsmb manpage. It only extracts them temporaily, but then it installs something like 'PSblahblah.DLL' in stead. Doh!
I pray to God that my setup will work work stable now - I am so fed up with those damn Windows clients...

About olli.bo's problem: It definately works with network printers. I have such a setup running now, where CUPS connects to a small printserver box via LPD.

olli, I think it might be a problem with your permissions. Maybe try to change this line in your smb.conf:

daff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject:

mold: Great to hear you got it working! I think I'll put a section about the Adobe drivers in the guide if you don't mind! Sorry I couldn't help that much though.

About the other problem: as I said I have no real experience with such a setup but it sounds very promising that you got it working!

I've tried and tried with one of those LinkSys EPSX3 print servers with an attached Kyocera Mita FS1010 but it just would not interpret any postscript input. Meaning it prints out the postscript source in plain text, i.e. the CUPS test page is several pages long, filled with postscript commands in plain text. Same thing with every other file I try to print, even real plain text.

I tried with the original .ppd from Kyocera, as well as several from linuxprinting.org but always with the same result.

What printer do you use? Do you remember how you installed the printer so it would work with CUPS? Maybe you could PM me the instructions when you have the time or even put a little mini-howto together

Such a setup would be very nice here too, I am sick of manually installing printer drivers on 40 machines every few months.

olli.bo: mold could be right with the guest ok = yes setting although I am not sure that this is necessary. You could examine the Samba log files and see what happens at the moment you try to connect to a printer.

Granted, the Samba logs are really full of stuff but if you take a thorough look you might find a permission problem or any other error message that could indicate the problem.

Theoretically it should work...
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mold · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

In my case, a HP LaserJet 6MP is connected to a pretty old printserver box. This printserver understands Appletalk and LPD, but neither IPP nor SMB (which is part of the reason why I use a Gentoo server between the printserver and the Windows clients - as far as I can tell, current versions of Win do not support LPD).
Basically, I installed the LaserJet 6MP with Foomatic exactly like I would install a locally connected printer (followed the Gentoo printing HOWTO), the only difference was that as device, I did not use something like 'file:/dev/lp0', but:

sepulchron · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 8

do you remember the "NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME - problem"?
some posts before a few people had this but as far as i could see, the prob wasn't solved...
if it is solved please tell me how :-)

because i am facing this problem now...

at least i found out some additional information which could help to solve the problem. First i'd like to repeat the problem:

alright, it is about the "cupsaddsmb"
i always get this:

olli.bo · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

I solved my WinNT-connect problem. The reason was that my printer-admin-user had not enough rights to serve the printer or what ever...

My new problem is that the adobe-driver or the cups-server seems not to serve the special features like sorting paper and so on.
Is it possible to use the original printer drivers instead of the cups or adobe drivers?

daff · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:

Naughtyus · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:34 am Post subject:

I'm really having problems with Samba printing.

I have a Linux server, running cups and samba with an HP 932C DeskJet printer attached and working fine locally.

On Windows clients, they are able to see and install the printer without problem (I have them use their own drivers), however they are never actually able to send any print jobs to the printer. WinXP clients end with an error:

"User Intervention required: unable to connect to printer"

and Win98 clients have a similar error...
Please help!

My smb.conf is as follows:

OhSh33t · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the howto. I've gotten file sharing working very nicely. Was using WinSCP all the time to move files from Windows to Linux and vicea-versa. Now, we have one central server that everyone can connect to. SWeetness..

Print Sharing is fugly though.

# cupsaddsmb (has proven to drive me absolutely bonkers)

Ok.. I've been at this for almost a day now. I'm starting to go batty. I must be missing something really small. I've started from scratch 3 times now. I've googled my brains out as well as looked at all the official samba 3 printing docs..

No matter what I do I keep getting:

pharaoh · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:16 am Post subject:

This was a solid HOWTO. I never would have got this setup in this amount of time otherwise!!

One problem I ran into was in the cupsd.conf...I had to change the print server name to "localhost" instead of the hostname that the clients were used to.

I'm serving an HP3650 to two other Gentoo boxes, and once I had everything setup correctly I didn't even have to add the printers to the clients

IT'S GENTOO MAGIC!!!!
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Chewieip · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

First at all, what a great How-To!!!! It has been too usefull to me, but when I'm installing my windows drivers I've a little problem.

When the cupsaddsmb -H PrinterServer -U root -h PrinterServer -a asks me about the root password I write it but doesn't works.

I thought I forgot my root samba password so I run another time

pharaoh · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject:

I was getting the same thing. I'm using v3, which samba version are you using?

I ended up reinstalling samba and adding users with pdbedit...when I tried using pdbedit or smbpasswd I kept getting the same error you are.
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Chewieip · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

I've also the latest version 3.0.5. And if you say, reinstalling samba doesn't solve the problem, it has to be something more.

I'm confused.

daff · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

First of all I am sorry, but I just don't had/have the time to look after this thread lately. Hopefully I'll have more time in a week or two.

OhSh33t: I believe you overread it but I've mentioned it more than once: anything else than security = user seems to only cause lots of fricken trouble

xlulux · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 63

hey guys i get to the point where you install it and then run cupsd and it gives me this error

* Starting cupsd...
cupsd: Child exited on signal 15! [ !! ]

then i check error_log file and i get this line

X [05/Sep/2004:16:51:47 -0700] No valid Listen or Port lines were found in the configuration file!

i dont know what could be wrong, here is my smb.conf and my cupsd.conf

daff · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:34 am Post subject:

xlulux: Does your cupsd.conf contain only the lines you just posted? If so then you were mistaken. Your cupsd.conf should contain a lot more; in the file you should have edited the lines I explained in the guide, not generate a new file with just those few lines.

If you did not backup it before overwriting it (assuming you really overwrote it) then delete /etc/cups, reinstall it and then edit the standard /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file appropriately.
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xlulux · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 63

hey guys

having some trouble printing the test page, this is the error i get

E [06/Sep/2004:04:24:05 -0700] get_printer_attrs: resource name '/printers/*.' no good!
D [06/Sep/2004:04:24:05 -0700] Sending error: client-error-not-found

along side with this error

E [06/Sep/2004:04:44:05 -0700] restart_job: job #7 cannot be restarted - no files!
D [06/Sep/2004:04:44:05 -0700] Sending error: client-error-not-possible
D [06/Sep/2004:04:44:05 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=404

im kind of stumped on what to do. i set up the ppd for it and everything it just wont print, any help would be very valuable

daff · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

This is for everybody who encounters the NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error when using cupsaddsmb! Dan Herrington mailed me a solution which should/could work for most of you (I already updated the guide). If not then your problems (obviously) lie elsewhere

In the [print$] section of your smb.conf file you specify the path which holds the printer driver structure. That line in the config file includes a comment which says "this path holds the driver structure". That comment is the problem, since it is on the same line. Put if BEFORE or AFTER! Otherwise Samba looks for a share with the path literally named "/etc/samba/printer # this path holds ..." which of course does not exist.

So change this:

splaTTer · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

Hi,
i get a new error i think. found nowhere (google, usenet, forum here, mailinglists) else the same problem. i love that

thsts what i get:

blibbleage · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:51 am Post subject:

Yet another problem sharing a printer with windows computers. I followed through the HOWTO and it all went fine. Here's the relevant part of /etc/samba/smb.conf

revresxunil · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem... cupsaddsmb doesnt do anything... Have you figured out what is causing that?