Hi MK,
I discovered this problem the last weekend. The SuSE lprng.rpm is not working(at least under 2.4.2-4GB) for sharing samba printers with
clients.
You must uninstall lprng.rpm and compile your own. See this thread:
http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/2001-Apr/0139.html
You do not need to change the Samba rpms. They are working fine.
mk
I recently upgraded (well fresh install) from SuSE 7.0 to 7.1. Ever since then I can't get the network printers on the windows machines in the office to work. They used to work fine under 7.0. I am
installing
them with Yast2. I am not using CUPS. I can send the test pages to
printers but they come out very wrong. The most important one to get working is an Epson Stylus Colour 600 on a Win95 box. It prints about 6cms of green gecko with white horizontal stripes then moves on to the next page and prints a vague outline of the next bit of the test page then next page. That's as far as I let it go before deleting the job.
What changed from 7.0 to 7.1 (apart from kernel 2.4.2 that I'm using) that might account for this?
Any suggestions gratefully received,
Thanks, I tried to do what you suggested - using the source rpm from the SuSE 7.1 CD7. However, I got myself in a hugh mess with the install from the
Windows the sources. I was getting errors like lpd [30575]: Getprintcap_pathlist: entry not filter or absolute pathname 'etc/printcap' among others. I could also no longer print to the local printer either. However, in the course of all this I also noticed that I hadn't been using LPRng anyway, I had got LPRold installed. Your email from the archives seemed to suggest that installing the sources was everso straightforward. Unfortunately it appears to be beyond my meagre IQ. Any further hints most welcome. regards, Mark