From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 22:38:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3596737B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2A5B43F75 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 29514 invoked by uid 505); 19 Jul 2003 05:38:51 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 502 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.145924 secs); 19 Jul 2003 05:38:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 19 Jul 2003 05:38:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:58:05 +0200 (CEST) From: "P. U. Kruppa" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030719070906.C652@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: samba(2.2.8) printer server (on 4.8-RELEASE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:38:52 -0000 Hi! I am trying to set up a printer server (SAMBA 2.2.8 package on 4.8 -RELEASE, printer is a Kyocera FS-3700+ laser printer) which should be accessible from Win2000 and WinNT4 workstations _without_ any authentication. These are the steps I have taken so far: 1. I used apsfilter to make the kyocera work locally as a postscript-printer called lp . 2. (Sorry - stupid me forgot to bring home a copy of smb.cfg over the weekend) I edited smb.cfg so that the printer-server and lp itself can be seen in Windows' network enviroment, i.e. I set security = share and put up a share called [printers] browseable = yes path = /var/spool/lpd/lp read only = yes printable = yes guest ok = yes and I # chmod -R 4777 /var/spool/lpd/lp 3. I used windows' printer setup to install the kyocera driver for lp 4. When I try to print something, everything looks fine from the client side and I can see some blinking of the printer-server's LED's but nothing more happens. The windows printer queue stays empty, no files are created in /var/spool/lpd/lp Any ideas, what could be done next? Uli. +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+