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>>Required Packages:
>>
>>    * The package "samba-client" is needed for sending data (printer data)
>>      to an SMB share.
>>
>>    * Additionally, a complete print system (CUPS or LPRng and lpdfilter) is
>>      needed.
>
>root@batcave> rpm -q samba-client
>samba-client-3.0.20rc2-2
>root@batcave> rpm -q cups
>cups-1.1.23-15
>
>>Determining the NetBIOS Names:
>>The command "nmbstatus" lists the workgroups available in the network and
>>the respective NetBIOS host names, for example:
>>
>>user@host> nmbstatus
>>Found 123 hosts. Collecting additional information. Please wait.
>>...
>>WORKGROUP    TUX-NET
>>MEMBERS      GEEKO     TUX
>>...
>
>I get:
>
>root@batcave> nmbstatus
>Found 2 hosts. Collecting additional information. Please wait.
>..
>WORKGROUP       CLOYD
>LMB     CLOYD
>MEMBERS CLOYD
>
>WORKGROUP       WORKGRP
>LMB     SPIKE
>MEMBERS SPIKE
>
>(CLOYD is the XP box with the printer on it, and I see nmbstatus is claiming
>the workgroup name is CLOYD - this is simply not true. I double and triple
>checked on the XP box, and it says the workgroup name is WORKGRP and the
>other computers on my local network find cloyd in WORKGRP, so maybe this is
>the problem, but everything else below worked fine, so maybe this is
>just a silly bug in nmbstatus).
>
>>Determining the Available Shares:
>>The command "smbclient -L NetBIOS-hostname -N" lists available shares on the
>>SMB host with the specified NetBIOS host names, for example:
>>
>>user@host> smbclient -L GEEKO -N
>>...
>>Sharename      Type      Comment
>>---------      ----      -------
>>LPT1           Printer
>>...
>
>I get (deleting irrelevant junk):
>
>root@batcave> smbclient -L CLOYD -N
>Domain=[CLOYD] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
>        Sharename       Type      Comment
>        ---------       ----      -------
>        ...
>        HPLaserJ        Printer   HP LaserJet 6L
>        ...
>Domain=[CLOYD] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
>        Server               Comment
>        ---------            -------
>
>        Workgroup            Master
>        ---------            -------
>
>That is looking good, the HPLaserJ is the printer I'm trying to reach.
>
>
>>Testing the Printer:
>>The following command sends one carriage-return character "\r" to the
>>printer via the SMB share. Nothing is printed, but the printer may eject an
>>empty page.
>>
>>echo -en "\r" | smbclient "//NetBIOS-hostname/share" -c "print -" -N
>
>root@batcave> echo -en "\r" | smbclient "//CLOYD/HPLaserJ" -c "print -" -N
>Domain=[CLOYD] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>putting file - as stdin-5368 (0.0 kb/s) (average 0.0 kb/s)
>
>The printer lights flashed when I did that, so it certainly made
>something happen to the printer (though no blank page was printed).
>
>>If the printer is able to print ASCII text directly (without filtering), the
>>echo command can be replaced with the command
>>
>>echo -en "\rHello\r\f"
>>
>>to print the word "Hello".
>
>I tried that and got this:
>
>root@batcave> echo -en "\rHello\r\f" | smbclient "//CLOYD/HPLaserJ" -c "print -" -N
>Domain=[CLOYD] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>putting file - as stdin-5412 (0.7 kb/s) (average 0.7 kb/s)
>
>And that actually did print a page that says "Hello".
>
>>The Correct DeviceURI for CUPS:
>>In CUPS, the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf determines how the data
>>should be sent to the printer (or to the SMB share). The DeviceURI must be
>>as specified in "man smbspool":
>
>The file apparently constructed by the setup apps on my machine looks like:
>
><DefaultPrinter LaserJet-6L>
>Info LaserJet-6L
>DeviceURI smb://CLOYD/HPLaserJ
>State Idle
>Accepting Yes
>JobSheets none none
>QuotaPeriod 0
>PageLimit 0
>KLimit 0
></Printer>
>
>The URI certainly appears to match the description above.
>
>Looks like each piece works, but collectively, nothing happens :-).
>
>Is there some service that needs to be running other than cupsd for the
>printing to work, some separate print spooler or something?  The printer
>info apps all imply that the job is queued up, but nothing is happening to
>it.
>
>Having tested the pieces, I decided to delete the old printer defs, clean
>out the cups log files, and start from scratch, configuring a new printer
>using a GNOME session and the printer config wizard in the GNOME control
>center (which seems a bit friendlier to me than yast).
>
>However, I did get a couple of strange errors in the process. As soon
>as I tell it I want to add a network printer, it pops up a dialog box
>asking fro username and password for the fedora core 4 system I have
>on the network (which doesn't have a printer, and shouldn't be involved
>in any of this stuff :-).
>
>Once I do configure the HPLaserJ on CLOYD and hit the "Apply" button,
>it immediately pops up an error dialog saying the printer is not
>found, then a few seconds later, the printer icon appears in the
>printers dialog box I started this from (next to the "New Printer"
>icon).
>
>After doing that, I got the same results as before. Here's the complete
>error log:
>
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:35 -0400] Listening to 0:631
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:35 -0400] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:35 -0400] Configured for up to 100 clients.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:35 -0400] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:35 -0400] Full reload is required.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:39 -0400] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3941 PPDs...
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:43 -0400] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:30:43 -0400] Full reload complete.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:35:25 -0400] Setting LaserJet-6L device-uri to "smb://CLOYD/HPLaserJ" (was "file:/dev/null".)
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:35:25 -0400] Setting LaserJet-6L printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 0.)
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:35:25 -0400] Setting LaserJet-6L printer-state to 3 (was 5.)
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:35:25 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:35:25 -0400] New printer 'LaserJet-6L' added by 'root'.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:36:57 -0400] Scheduler shutting down normally.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:25 -0400] Listening to 0:631
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:25 -0400] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:26 -0400] Configured for up to 100 clients.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:26 -0400] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:26 -0400] Full reload is required.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:33 -0400] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3941 PPDs...
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:36 -0400] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:38:36 -0400] Full reload complete.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 1.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 1.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Job 1 queued on 'LaserJet-6L' by 'root'.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4972) for job 1.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 4973) for job 1.
>I [23/Aug/2005:19:39:50 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID 4974) for job 1.
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:39:51 -0400] [Job 1] No ticket cache found for userid=0
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:39:51 -0400] [Job 1] Can not get the ticket cache for root
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:39:51 -0400] [Job 1] Tree connect failed
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:39:52 -0400] [Job 1] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...foomatic-rip version $Revision: 3.48 $ running...
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:40:51 -0400] [Job 1] No ticket cache found for userid=0
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:40:51 -0400] [Job 1] Can not get the ticket cache for root
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:40:51 -0400] [Job 1] Tree connect failed
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:41:51 -0400] [Job 1] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: No ticket cache found for userid=0
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:41:51 -0400] [Job 1] Can not get the ticket cache for root
>E [23/Aug/2005:19:41:51 -0400] [Job 1] Tree connect failed
>
>Looking on the web for "ticket cache", all I find are references to some
>kerberos related nonsense. I don't have kerberos configured on any of my
>machines (at least not deliberately), so if it is trying to get to the
>windows box via some kind of kerberos authentication, I don't blame it for
>not working (but have no idea why it would try that :-).
>
>For grins, I also tried adding the WORKGRP to the DeviceURI manually
>and restarting cups, but neither WORKGRP nor CLOYD functioned any
>better than it did without the workgroup name in the uri.
>
>That's pretty much exhausted everything I know how to try :-).

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