[ale] Windows printing through samba?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Jan 13 11:05:48 EST 2004


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 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

Looks like Windows gets it to Samba, but Samba can't get it to cups.

Is cups-lpd running?
Is it getting into the cups print spool?
What do the cups logs say?

> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.0.*

Does that work, or should it be 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0?

later,
chris



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