\nApologies if this is an old chestnut, but I’ve seen identical queries all over the linux groups on google, and no workaround.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Apologies if this is an old chestnut, but I’ve seen identical queries all over the linux groups on google, and no workaround.<\/p>\n
Scenario:<\/p>\n
Win2K\/XP samba clients can submit print jobs to printer on samba server(and they print), but dbl click on the samba printer or “see whats printing” gives the titlebar message:<\/p>\n
[printername] on [servername] Access denied, unable to connect.<\/p>\n
you cant cancel jobs, etc<\/p>\n
This drove me bonkers until I cranked up logging to level 3 and RTFM (man smb.conf)
\nquote
\n.. the OpenPrint_erEx() call will fail. The result is that the
\nclient will now display an “Access Denied; Unable
\nto connect” message in the printer queue window
\n(even though jobs may successfully be printed).<\/p>\n
This is the “use client driver” section. And it applies in my case where I have a winXPhome
\nconnecting to a laser printer on the samba box.<\/p>\n
I’m not doing the [print$] share and installing all the drivers on the samba box (yet). This is well worth it but some other time.<\/p>\n
to repeat, setting up [print$] is The Right Way To Do It. <\/p>\n
Horrid Hack Answer: “use client driver = yes” see below<\/p>\n
I dont want samba to grab everything in \/etc\/printcap, thus<\/p>\n
[global]
\n…
\nload printers = no
\n…<\/p>\n
The printer SHARE name is “Panasonic”, the entry in \/etc\/printcap is KXP6500 and its
\nset as a “raw” queue as it gets the preprocessed bytestream from the samba client.
\nThe spool file is \/var\/lpd\/samba as its lprng’s job to take the file from here and
\nshovel it into the \/var\/spool\/lpd\/KXP6500 queue<\/p>\n
thus<\/p>\n
[Panasonic]
\nbrowsable = yes
\nprintable = yes
\nprinting = lprng
\nprinter = KXP6500
\nprint command = \/usr\/bin\/lpr -b -P%p -r %s
\nlpq command = \/usr\/bin\/lpq -P%p
\nlprm command = \/usr\/bin\/lprm -P%p %j
\npath = \/var\/spool\/samba
\nmin print space = 2000
\n#
\n# CAUTION! this does not apply to win95\/98\/ME
\n# it tells winNT\/2K\/XP clients to use a local
\n# printer driver
\n# stops the “acess denied” in windows when trying to view
\n# print queue
\nuse client driver = yes<\/p>\n
\nnb, perms, owner, group, for \/var\/spool\/samba are drwxrwxrwt root root<\/p>\n
\nHey presto! I can examine the queue, suspend, restart, cancel print jobs etc.<\/p>\n
setting “done_jobs=0” in lpd.conf will get rid of the long list of completed jobs
\nthat windows will display for days afterwards.<\/p>\n
Hope this helps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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