mute wrote:

hi i just setup samba on my home network, and my windows box has a printer attached to it, and im trying to print with it from my linux box. i type cat $1 |lpr -b -Pepson

to print, and printer raw in printcap has the following entry

epson:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint:\ :mx=0:\ :lp=/dev/null:

once i try ptinting, i get lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.

regardless of the fact whether lpd is running or not. if i try to print and then envoke lpd, i get the following in the syslog Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor lpd[15606]: restarting epson Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor last message repeated 3 times Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor lpd[15606]: epson: job could not be printed (cfA004mordor) Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor lpd[15606]: restarting epson Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor last message repeated 3 times Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor lpd[15606]: epson: job could not be printed (cfA005mordor) Sep 27 12:24:22 mordor modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6

how confused am i?.. should there be lpd running? i did everything from smb-howto on printing, and nothing works.

thanks for any help

Hmm. Did you use yast to set up the printer? There is an option to use a printer via samba on a windows machine. This involves a script called samba_print. This script has the option to enable logging by uncommenting. Further involved ate some /etc/apsfilterrc.printername scripts, that with SuSE 7.0 should be world readable (and so should be rc.config in that case). other possibilities include the use of /etc/hosts.allow / hosts.deny.

From what I guess out of your printcap, you use the samba tools. Try yast first.

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