From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 12:20:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CFB37B41D for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:20:35 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: network printing problem (long and detailed) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build M11_11052001 Beta 4 November 05, 2001 Message-ID: From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:20:31 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 04.04.2002 22:20:35, Serialize complete at 04.04.2002 22:20:35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have fbsd 4.5 and samba-2.2.2.3 working fine, and a hp 952c working fine, on the fbsd box. I have this one bsd box on a windoze network - 45 workstations, 8 servers, 2 freebsd boxes. I want this one printer to be accesible to the servers. The printer and the bsd box it is connected to (via parallel port) are in the server room. When I set up a print device in NT to print to the printer it will start to spool then quit and the word spooling will be replaced by 'printing error'. I do have one old win95 box and it will print to that printer just fine. I don't understand why NT can't print to it. I posted a similar message to this on the samba mail list and got one person to respond, she implied that since I am using LPR to print, I don't need samba. I don't understand this. Without samba the printer would not be accessible to the windoze boxes, right? You can see I am not real clear in this area. My smb.conf is set up to share the hp printer, as follows - [global] workgroup = SIMDOM server string = Chip's second PC log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = domain password server = simrad_1, simrad_2 encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 path = / wins server = 157.237.65.101 null passwords = yes remote announce = 157.237.65.255 default = Chip's second PC dns proxy = no protocol = NT1 netbios name = cwiegand2 name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast load printers = yes printcap = /etc/printcap guest account = chip print command = lpr -r -P%p %s printing = bsd [printers] comment = HP 952C path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes writeable = no printable = yes print ok = yes public = yes Now, I know I don't need all of that stuff, I was just trying everything I could to get this to work. Do I need to change the permissions somewhere, on the fbsd box? (I am able to map a drive from the nt box to the fbsd box and copy and write files to the bsd box from the nt box. And vice- versa.) I have set up the /var/spool/lpd/ directories as follows - -rwxr-xr-x bin daemon (I have since even gone so far as to chmod 777 the raw spool dir, still no go). I've used the instructions in the book by Ted Mittelstaedt. I've used apsfilter to create several printers - hq (high quality photo), lp (low quality photo), text, raw. The raw is, according to the book, for use by Windoze to print to. So, in Windoze NT I create the printer device by doing this: Add Printer/My Computer/Add Port/LPR Port/New Port/Name of server providing LPD - cwiegand2/Name of printer of print queue on that server - raw/OK/Close/Next/then I pick the driver from the cd/print test page. This is where I see in the windoze printer window the job and job status shows spooling (for a second or two) then printing - printer error. I have tried to test all the printer queues that are set up on the bsd box, I'm not sure if I am entering it correctly on the NT box - for the option 'Name of printer or print queue on that server' I have entered only the name - raw (also tried lp, etc). I have also tried using the path to the queue - /var/spool/lpd/raw, and I get the same results. Notice I don't get access denied errors, the spooling appears to start then fails. I also reinstalled sp6a 'just in case', but it still responds with the same error. My printcap looks like this - # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL hq|hpdj/850C;r=1200x1200;q=photo;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hq:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hq/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/hq/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS1_END - don't delete this # APS2_BEGIN:printer2 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer2 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL text|hpdj/850C;r=300x300;q=low;c=mono;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/text:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/text/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/text/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS2_END - don't delete this # APS3_BEGIN:printer3 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer3 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL lp|hpdj/850C;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS3_END - don't delete this # APS4_BEGIN:printer4 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer4 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL raw|hpdj/850C;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=raw:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/raw/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: # APS4_END - don't delete this -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc www.simrad.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 (They why do I have 7? 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