[ale] Windows printing through samba?

[David A. De Graaf]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:52:57PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> I've got my wife's Windows laptop set up finally for school (yeah,
> winsux is required required).  Anyway, I've got a happy little cups
> system that ll my linux boxes can print through nicely.  I have
> installed samba on the printer server and set it up.  I've added the
> printer to her laptop and installed the drivers but when I print I get
> nothing.  The laptop seems to think the printjob went but in my samba
> logs I get this:
> 
> {0}:/var/log/samba>cat log.smbd
> [2004/01/11 06:28:17, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printer_fn(108)
>   Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
> 
> 
> {1}:/var/log/samba>cat log.dana 
> [2004/01/07 22:20:38, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_data(342)
>   read_socket_data: recv failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
> 
> Her machine is 192.168.0.201 "dana"...  In my /etc/cupsd.conf I have this:
> 
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.0.*
> </Location>
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on what I might have missed?  I'm still poking
> but I can't find anything yet.

The smb.conf file usually specifies a spooling directory, eg,
    [printers]
        path = /var/spool/samba

Does this directory exist, and is it writable by all?


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