Summary: printing to a samba printer

Hello Managres,

Thanks to Tim Chiman ,  tony.tibbenham@sonoco.com,David foster
Due to the length the mail iam not putting other solutions here.

The whole effort updated our knowledge how windows recognises a printer
> second part just shows how it's done.
> here for printer you need  not load a driver just when you click on
the
> printer share driver gets installed .
>
>   #samba configuration file /etc/smb.conf
>
>   #samba conf# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should
read
> the
>   # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
>   # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too

>   # many!) most of which are not shown in this example
>   #
>   # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
>   # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
>   # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
>   # may wish to enable
>   #
>   # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
> "testparm"
>   # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors.
>   #
>   #======================= Global Settings
> =====================================
>   [global]
>           workgroup = ap01
>           server string = Hplocal%v on (%L)
>           security = SERVER
>           encrypt passwords = Yes
>           password server = ii0015dc00
>           log level = 2
>           debug level = 2
>           netbios name = labyrinth
>           log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log.%m.%R
>           name resolve order = wins host dns
>           wins server = 135.252.76.238
>           hosts allow 135.254.213.0/255.255.255.0
>           socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>           os level = 0
>           max connections = 400
>           printer = lp
>           load printers = no
>
>   #------------------------------------------------------
>   # Local shares you need to copy msprint.inf where the printer is
> installed and run make-printersdef
>   #------------------------------------------------------
> [PRINTER$]
>               path = /opt/local/samba/printers
>               public = yes
>               writable = no
>               browsable = yes
>
> [Hplocal]
>               comment = Hplaserjet
>               #path = /var/spool/lp
>               path = /tmp
>               printer driver = HP LaserJet 6L PCL
>               printer driver file = /opt/local/samba/printers.def
>               printer driver location = \\%h\PRINTER$
>               browseable = yes
>               printable = yes
>
> >
> > labyrinth# ./bin/make_printerdef /home/raghunathl/6lpro/MSPRINT3.INF
"HP
> > LaserJet 6L PCL" >> printers.def
> > Found:PCL5EMS3.DRV
> > End of section found
> > CopyFiles: @PCL5EMS3.DRV,UNI,FINSTALL
> > Datasection: UNI_DATA
> > Datafile: PCL5EMS3.DRV
> > Driverfile: PCL5EMS3.DRV
> > Helpfile: UNIDRV.HLP
> > LanguageMonitor: (null)
> > VendorSetup: (null)
> >
> > Copy the following files to your printer$ share location:
> > PCL5EMS3.DRV
> > UNIDRV.DLL
> > UNIDRV.HLP
> > ICONLIB.DLL
> > FINSTALL.DLL
> > FINSTALL.HLP
> >
>
> Stating and stopping samba
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
>   case "$1" in
>   'start')
>           echo "Starting SMB services..."
>           /opt/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf
>           /opt/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D -n labyrinth -s /etc/smb.conf
> ;;
>
>   'stop')
>           echo "Stopping SMB services..."
>           kill `/bin/ps -ef | grep smbd | grep -v grep | awk '{print
$2}'`
>           kill `/bin/ps -ef | grep nmbd | grep -v grep | awk '{print
$2}'`
>           ;;
>   *)
>           echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
>   esac
>
> /etc/services file
> netbios-ns      137/tcp         nbns#all for samba
> netbios-ns      137/udp         nbns
> netbios-dgm     138/tcp         nbdgm
> netbios-dgm     138/udp         nbdgm
> netbios-ssn     139/tcp         nbssn
>
> /etc/rc3.d
> total 12
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     sys         1708 Sep  1  1998 README
> -rwxr--r--   6 root     sys         2307 Sep  1  1998 S15nfs.server
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         17 Nov  9 18:04 S99samba ->
> /etc/init.d/samba
> labyrinth# pwd
> /etc/rc3.d
> samba is installed in /opt/local
>
> >
> > --
> > Thanx&Regards
> > RaghuNathL
> > Ux-Administrator
> > CIO-GIO Helpdesk
> > Lucent-Ins
> > Ph:5500061 Ex:2048
> > "Change in themselves cause changes"



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Thanx&Regards
RaghuNathL
Ux-Administrator
CIO-GIO Helpdesk
Lucent-Ins
Ph:5500061 Ex:2048
"Change in themselves cause changes"