Re: Printing to Windows shared printer

[Marcelo Medici <gaucho@ericps.crc.uiuc.edu>]

I tried printconf from the beginning. However, even after configuring the
printer, nothing gets added to /etc/printcap for the samba printer. So
restarting lpd produced the error that 'no printers configured'. I'm not
sure why this occurs.

Thank you for your help.

On 28 Mar 2003, Todd Davis wrote:

> Personally I find it a whole lot easier to just use printconf to
> configure the printer.  I never can seem to remeber all of those
> printcap parameters.
>
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:12, Marcelo Medici wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to configure my RH8 machine to print to a Windows share. I am
> > using samba-2.2.7-4.8.0. I have LPD and CUPS both installed.
> >
> > I created a smbprint.sysv file in /etc/samba. The only parts of it I have
> > edited are:
> >
> > server   = ERIC901
> > service  = LASER
> > password = "xxxxxxxx"
> >
> > I then tried to add this printer using lpadmin:
> >
> > lpadmin -p samsung_printer -v /dev/null -i /etc/samba/smbprint.sysv
> >
> > Although the file does get added /etc/printcap, I receive an error when
> > restarting lpd:
> >
> > Starting lpd: Warning - samsung_printer: 'no :rm, :lp, or :sv entry'
> > Warning - samsung_printer: Bad printcap entry - missing 'sd' or 'client'
> > entry?
> >
> > I read through `man printcap` and I can see the explanation of each of
> > these keywords, however I'm not certain of what their values should be.
> > Can someone lend a hand on configuring this?
> >
> > Thank You.
> >
> >
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