[ale] Shared Samba printer, SuSE 9.0

[H. Adrin Story]

Some quick testing tips from the windows side for printing.

 From a DOS prompt

net view \\<SAMBA_SERVER _NAME>

You should see the network shares

net print \\<SAMBA_SERVER _NAME>\<SHARED_PRINTER_NAME>

This will show you the print que. NOTE:  It will show you the last job 
printed even though it is done.

print /d:\\<SAMBA_SERVER _NAME>\<SHARED_PRINTER_NAME>   <TEXT_FILE_TO_PRINT>

This should print the file and return a response.    If you are getting 
asked for a username and password at anytime you may need to check your 
smb.conf file.    As far as CUPS go.    I have not played with those yet.

Adrin


BruceG wrote:

>I'm running SuSE 9.0 and have Samba running. I am logged on from a WIndows 
>client and can see my home directory and my printer. I can read and write 
>files to the home directory, so I know that part is working. I can also "see" 
>my shared printer.
>
>When I go to print from my Windows client, I get no output at all! The printer 
>works fine in CUPS (I can print from OOo and other apps on the SuSE desktop) 
>- but somehow when I cam sharing it - nothing happens.
>
>Where should I start to look to solve this? Anyone run into this problem 
>before, or is it just me?
>
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