Dave Debus wrote:
>
> First let me beg forgiveness for the length of this posting, but I am
> at my wits end trying to figure this out.  The environment is as
> follows.
>
>   HOST==       HP 3000/917lx on mpe/ix 5.0 PP 6
>   CLIENTS ==   NT workstation 4.0 SP 3
>
> Connecting and logging on to shares both as quest and as mapped user
> works like a charm. (GREAT STUFF !!) But when ever I try to print, I
> get various errors depending on the application I am printing from each
> causing the same log entry in 'log.smb'. What am I missing??
>
</snip>

Dave,

Here's our setup with respect to printing
HOST==       HP 3000/987 on mpe/ix 5.0 PP ???
CLIENTS ==   WIN 95 (printing from DOS as well as ICON printing)

POSIX /usr/local/samba/lib>cat printcap
lp|HP 3000 Site133 Bldg 10-80, Comp. Room Col.12L-16
lp1|HP 3000 Site133 Bldg 10-80, Comp. Room Col.12L-16
rlp|HP 3000 Site133 Bldg 7-42.4,  40D4  (BCS)

[global]
printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap

[printers]
  comment = HP 3000 Site133 spooled printers
  browseable = yes
  printable = yes
  write ok = no
  create mode = 0700
  path = /tmp
  guest ok = yes
  print command = /bin/cat %s > /dev/%p ;/bin/rm %s

POSIX /dev>ls -al
total 23
drwxrwxr-x   2 MANAGER.SYS       0           1088 Mar 18  1997 .
dr-xr-xr-x  19 MANAGER.SYS       0           9240 Sep 26 16:52 ..
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb 11  1997 ldev321
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb  4  1997 lp
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb  4  1997 lp1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb  4  1997 null
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb  4  1997 rlp
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Mar 30  1996 sad
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Mar 30  1996 strlog
-rw-rw-rw-   1 MANAGER.SYS       0              0 Feb 21  1997 tty

Note: you need to mknod to enable HP 3000 printers to be seen in Posix.

POSIX /etc>ls -al printcap
lrwxrwxrwx   1 MANAGER.SYS       0             29 Aug 16 12:37 printcap
-> /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap

POSIX /usr/local/samba/bin>testprns rlp
Looking for printer rlp in printcap file /etc/printcap
Printer name rlp is valid.


C:\WINDOWS>DIR JUNK.TXT

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 354D-13D6
 Directory of C:\WINDOWS

JUNK     TXT           537  08-14-97  3:50p JUNK.txt
         1 file(s)            537 bytes
         0 dir(s)     349,978,624 bytes free

C:\WINDOWS>COPY JUNK.TXT \\SITE133\RLP
        1 file(s) copied

SITE133 is the HP3000 and RLP is rlp referenced in /dev/rlp

09/28/97 08:49:18 e828946 (137.137.188.55) connect to service rlp as
user MGR.SAMBA (uid=963,gid=192) (pid 28049872)
09/28/97 08:53:09 e828946 (137.137.188.55) closed connection to service
rlp

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