Re: [SLUG] printing from windows 2k to linux with cups

From: Russell Hires (sollust@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 11:18:43 EST


I can't help, but I can commiserate. I can't even get cups to print to a
network printer from my linux box. Of course, it's an appletalk network, but
still...

Russell

On Friday 31 January 2003 10:35 am, you wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Mike Manchester wrote:
> > This is driving me nuts. I've read a bunch of stuff on the net about
> > printing from windows to a Linux server running cups. Windows can see
> > the shares on the Linux server and even the printer but I can't get any
> > output from the Linux machine to the printer. And there are now errors
> > generated on the windows machine it just sends the job and nothing
> > happens.
> >
> > Anyone have any more ideas I can try?
>
> What does the [printers] section of your smb.conf file show? Can you
> print using the defined command? Also check to see if the spool files
> are waiting in /var/spool/samba directory.



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