Re: [SLE] A couple of Samba questions

I have a SuSE 9.1 samba server with a customised smb.conf. I haven't had any problems so far. I think that SuSEconfig recognises which config files are modified by other than SuSEconfig. Some rpm:s add a new file, for example smb.conf.rpmnew. Now, I don't know if this is valid for samba, but it's not really such a big deal to save all your config files anyway. It may indeed be wise to make a backup once in a while... /Niclas

From: To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] A couple of Samba questions Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:13:12 -0400

Jay:

I ran YaST Online Update on my 9.1 yesterday and there was an update for either Ghostwriter or CUPS that was specific to the Epson Stylus series printers. As I recall the update was needed to print from LINUX to these Epsons. Samba of course uses the LINUX/CUPS printing system.

Be sure to use YaST to setup the printers as it is specific to SUSE LINUX. I've tried the CUPS Web Management but had mixed results with SUSE. It may be just fine for say debian.org 's LINUX. Those problems went away when I used YaST for printer setup.

/etc/samba/smb.conf is directly modified by YaST so it may not be wise to modify it directly, again YaST can do alot. If necessary you can do local and specialized changes using files named smb.conf.<some name> which will not be touched by YaST. See http://www.samba.org/ documentation section or the book "Using Samba 2ed" by Ts, Eckstein, Collier-Brown ,2003, Chapter 7 The Samba Configuration File and Chapter 10 Printing.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:13:47 -0500 Jay Vollmer wrote:

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Hi everybody.

I have a couple of questions regarding the setup of SAMBA on SuSE9.1.

I cannot figure out how to setup my parallel Epson Stylus Color 850 as a raw print queue via YAST2. I want to be able to print to this printer through Windows. I'm sure that I'm missing something simple.

Also, when I check swat on port 901, I see that it indicates that smbd is not running even though I have added it to run levels 3 and 5, and 'rcsmb status' indicates that it is running - what gives?

I'd be ever so grateful if someone could hit me with a clue-stick.

-- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER@CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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