From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 12:10:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (kraeusen.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFD537B421 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 38C9CB759; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:14:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:14:10 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Mark Alli Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba Message-ID: <20011212141407.B12775@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Mark Alli , questions@freebsd.org References: <000701c18332$a3268a60$1abc6bcf@marknew> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c18332$a3268a60$1abc6bcf@marknew> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN 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 Mark Alli (mark@bodkin.com) wrote: > I have a network running FreeBSD,Linux and Windows. My problem is I have a > shared printer attached to a Windows NT 4.0 machine and I want to print to > it from FreeBSD and Linux machines. I have already set up the printcap file > and created a directory for the new printer ie P4, and restarted lpd, the > "lock" and "status" files were created, and when I do a teslprn everything > is fine. My problem is, when I try to print I get the error "job could not > be printed". What am I doing wrong. This does not really answer your questions, but: I always found it much simpler to *not* use samba for this particular setup. You have to install (and start) TCP/IP Printing Services on the NT machine, and then your FreeBSD machine can 'see' the Windows NT machine as just another Unix machine with an lpd server. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message