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Re: Cups and smbspool - SOLVED



I figured it out, I didn't have smbclient installed :\
Didn't hit me until I walked away and then re-read this post.

On 10/17/05, Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>    I have a windows PC that has my only printer connected to it. I
> wanted to be able to print via smb to that printer. Reading
> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#PRINTING_OTHER
> It looks like I just need to make a symlink to some smbspool app. I
> have samba installed but can not find this app using samba 3.0. I have
> a server running samba 2.2 which has the app. Do I need to downgrade
> samba to get this to work? I will be using samba on this laptop only
> for basic browsing and mounts. So downgrading wont be a big deal, but
> I would like stay with the latest and greatest.
>
>
> [erik@laptop:~> sudo dpkg -l | grep smb
> ii  libsmbclient   3.0.14a-3      shared library that allows applications to t
> ii  smbfs          3.0.14a-3      mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for
> [erik@laptop:~> sudo dpkg -l | grep samba
> ii  samba          3.0.14a-3      a LanManager-like file and printer server fo
> ii  samba-common   3.0.14a-3      Samba common files used by both the server a
> ii  webmin-samba   1.180-3        samba control module for webmin
> [erik@laptop:~> sudo dpkg -l | grep cups
> ii  cupsys         1.1.23-10      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
> ii  gnome-cups-man 0.25-2.1       CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
> ii  libcupsimage2  1.1.23-10      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
> ii  libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.23-10      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
> ii  libgnomecups1. 0.1.14-1       GNOME library for CUPS interaction
> ii  libgnomecupsui 0.25-2.1       UI extensions to libgnomecups
>
> uname -a
> Linux laptop 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>



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