> I have a multitude of desktop NT and W2K boxes printing to these
> printers via the same route( samba, network).
Coo, if your NT/w2k boxen are going through Samba, you're well on your
way. And NT uses port 139 like w98 will, so unless you have host-
specific stuff going on, or your w98 boxes are on a different network
interface, your iptables is open enough.
> For some darn reason it says it is not available to be used.???
> Is there a caveat in smb.conf that I am missing that covers the win98
> OS? Or is there the same caveat in the cups conf file for win98??
Never had w98, but what version of Samba are you running? Are the
drivers installed locally on the PC's? If so, you may need to
set "use client driver = yes" in smb.conf for a quick fix, or for the
right fix, install the drivers from the print$ share of your samba
server (use client driver is a hack). But try setting "use client
driver = yes" first and see if you can print.
If that doesn't work, when you fire off a print job from one of these
w98 guys, does anything show up in the samba logs? If your smb.conf
splits off logs by machine (%M), is there a samba log for that
machine? Also, what security method does your samba server use
(share, user, security, domain)?
~ Daniel
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