Re: [SLUG] samba printing with cups

From: Joe Brandt (bytemepc@directvinternet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 16:12:14 EST


Mike Manchester wrote:

>I've setup and Epson C60 with cups and the printer works fine when
>printing from the machine running Redhat 7.3 that the printer is
>attached to.
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>However when I try to print from a windows machine to it nothing works.
>If I check the cups error log file I see the following entry.
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>get_printer_attrs: resource name '/printers/lpr'
>get_jobs: resource name '/printers/lpr' no good!
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>I have the same setup working on another Redhat 7.3 machine and I copied
>the smb.conf from it to the machine having problems and still no luck.
>Can someone shed some light on this error? Searching google turns up
>others getting the error but no resolution.
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>Thanks
>Mike M.
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I am assuming that the printer is shared on the RED Hat machine. I have
always had luck "Finding" the priner serving machine in Windows, open it
up and you should see the printer, right click on the printer and choose
the "Install" option (windows 98)



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