Re: Samba

[King Lee <king@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu>]

Hello

First thanks to Dai and others  who replied to my query regarding Samba.
For the benefit of others, let me state what I  learned

    Evidently when Debian installs Samba, the nmbd demon
	is started in inetd. The Samba documentation explains
	how to start nmbd manually and with inetd; it is
	not necessary to do this under Debian.
    The smbd demon does not appear when I do a  ps -aux unless
	there is another Win machine that is  looking at a share
	directory on the Linux server.

I have still have some questions  and hope someone can help.
I want to use my Linux box as a print server. 

I am on a TCP network and my Linux machine, named ccrps27,
can  send print files to various printers.  
A typical entry  for a remote printer in  my printcap is:
    cstext:\
	    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cstext:\
	    :mx#0:\
	    :sh:\
	    :rm=ultrix6:\
	    :rp=cstext:
Furthermoe other Win95 machines can print to the cstext printer.

Now, I have set up a printer on my mahcine, also named ccrps27,
and my printcap entry is:

    ccrps27:\
	    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ccrps27:\
	    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
	    :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
	    :pl#66:\
	    :pw#80:\
	    :pc#150:\
	    :mx#0:\
	    :sh:

I can print to local printer from my machine (ccrps27).

On Win95 machines, I am not able to the printer on my machine.
The local printer shows up grayed out. 

I tried to print to the local printer with another linux machine
after setting up the printcap to  something like:

    ccrps27:\
	    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ccrps27:\
	    :mx#0:\
	    :sh:\
	    :rm=ccrps27:\
	    :rp=ccrps27:

Nothing happens.

The problem, I think, is somehow the lpd demon is not 
accepting print requests over the network.  I have the 
hostname of the remote linux machine in /etc/hosts.lpd. 
My smb.conf has a [printers] section

Thanks in advnace.

King Lee
king@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu