lpr not starting has nothing to do with your Samba definitions not showing up in the Windows Network Neighborhood. Still, it's something you need to fix. You need to understand that Samba and lpr don't really "know" about each other very much. Certainly lpr knows absolutely nothing about Samba. So, define the printer in /etc/printcap for lpr, and that should make it happy. The printer not showing up is related to nmbd and WINS. The nmbd daemon is responsible for making the NETBIOS names known to the network. At this point, I would recommend going through the Samba problem diagnosis documentation and see what all works, and what doesn't. The doc comes with the software. (Or it should. I seem to recall Red Hat not including all of it, but that's kind of hazy and I could be wrong.) The Samba problem diagnosis stuff, and the "Using Samba" book that comes with the package will both be a big help in gathering more information. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Illingsworth [mailto:ILLINGSK@cityofrochester.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:13 AM To: redhat-s390-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: Setting up Printers We are relatively small, and have only one Win NT server which provides the WINS service to everyone. So, the 172.16.0.121 address is common to everyone here. Here are the results of the grep: [root@cofr3 root]# ps -ax | grep mbd 3099 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D 3106 ? S 0:06 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D 12316 pts/0 S 0:00 grep mbd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Perhaps a more astute observation involves the LPR daemon. It appears that LPR does not want to start because there are no printers defined. The paradox to me is that the bhrshp1 printer is in fact defined as a printer share in the smb.conf file. [bhrshp1] path = /var/spool/lpd/bhrshp1 valid users = root,illingsk,@Treasury printable = Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- This makes me inclined to believe that this issue is more closely associated with the lpr daemon rather than wins. Any suggestions on what configuration changes I need to make to get it started would be greatly appreciated. >>> "Post, Mark K" <mark.post@eds.com> 12/09/02 12:26PM >>> Since you're specifying a WINS server, you should make sure that your Win2K clients are using the _same_ WINS server. The other thing to do is make sure that nmbd is running: ps ax | grep mbd Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Illingsworth [mailto:ILLINGSK@cityofrochester.gov] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:07 PM To: redhat-s390-list@redhat.com Subject: Setting up Printers I am trying to set up an HP 4050N printer on a Red Hat Linux v7.2 virtual machine running Samba v2.21 . The server IP is 172.17.60.6, and the printer IP is 172.16.0.116 . Since they appear to be on different subnets, I was inclined to suspect that I simply needed to specify 172.16.0.255 in the remote announce field. Here are some other pertinent settings: [global] workgroup cofrny netbios name cofr3 interfaces 172.16.60.6/255.255.255.0 security DOMAIN printing sysv map to guest Bad User preferred master TRUE local master YES domain master TRUE dns proxy Yes wins server 172.16.0.121 [bhrshp1] path /var/spool/lpd/bhrshp1 valid users root,illingsk,@Treasury printable Yes After restarting the Samba daemons, I still could not locate the printer via the add new printer wizard on a Win2kPro workstation. I am struggling to ascertain what else should be done. Can you help? Thank you in advance for your time. _______________________________________________ Redhat-s390-list mailing list Redhat-s390-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-s390-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-s390-list mailing list Redhat-s390-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-s390-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-s390-list mailing list Redhat-s390-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-s390-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-s390-list mailing list Redhat-s390-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-s390-list
