Problem: printing to HP LaserJet - SAMBA and CUPS problem?

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:47:26 +0200
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

Hi Debian masters,

I have installed a Debian box at the office which is mainly a Windows
network:

emba-master:/home/emres# uname -a
Linux emba-master 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux

Then I also installed SAMBA and CUPS. For now, we can connect to Debian and
use it as a file server. It is also possible to sit in front of the
machine and print to
the HP LaserJet 1100 connected to it.

*Problem*: I just can't make MS Windows PCs print to HP LaserJet
installed on Debian.

Here's smb.conf:

==========================================================
emba-master:/home/emres# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | egrep -v " *(;|#)"

[global]
  workgroup = emba.networks
  server string = %h server (Samba %v)
  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
  max log size = 1000
  syslog = 0
  panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
  security = user
 socket options = TCP_NODELAY

[webroot]
  comment = Web Server Root
  path = /var/www/apache2-default/web/
  writable = yes

[homes]
  comment = Home Directories
  browseable = yes

[Programs]
  path = /home/winshare/programs/
  comment = Programs
  writable = yes

[Games]
  path = /home/winshare/games/
  comment = Games
  writable = yes

[Movies]
  path = /home/winshare/movies/
  comment = Movies
  writable = yes

  writable = yes
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777

[printers]

[print$]
  comment = Printer Drivers
  path = /var/lib/samba/printers
  browseable = yes
  read only = yes
  guest ok = yes

[EmbaPrinter]
       comment = EmbaPrinter
       writeable = yes
       printable = yes
       path = /var/spool/samba
==========================================================

And cupsaddsmb worked without problems:

=============================================================
emba-master:/home/emres# cupsaddsmb -H emba-master -U root -h
emba-master -v EmbaPrinter

Password for root required to access emba-master via SAMBA:
Running command: rpcclient emba-master -N -U'root%XXXXX' -c 'setdriver
EmbaPrinter EmbaPrinter'
Succesfully set EmbaPrinter to driver EmbaPrinter.
=============================================================

However, when I connect from a MS Windows PC to \\emba-master and see a
printer
named EmbaPrinter and right-click on it, trying to Connect it doesn't
provide me any
valid driver (showing an unrelated local folder on my PC).

Besides, as you see above there's a "path = /var/lib/samba/printers"
line in smb.com
however:

=============================================================
emba-master:/home/emres# ls -laR /var/lib/samba/printers/
/var/lib/samba/printers/:
toplam 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 W32X86
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 WIN40

/var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..

/var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..
==============================================================

Where are the drivers? Am I doing something wrong?

Another strange situation when I start my Windows Explorer to browse
\\emba-master
in the "Printers" shared folder I see another printer called "lp dot
matrix printer" which
I didn't define in smb.conf; I also tried my chance with that, trying to
install some HP
driver but then I still couldn't print.

What shoul I check? How can I troubleshoot this?

All I need is to be able to print from MS Windows clients to the HP
LaserJet installed
on Debian (which is working fine locally).

Cheers,
Emre Sevinc
Istanbul Bilgi University

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