Problem: printing to HP LaserJet - SAMBA and CUPS problem?

[Emre Sevinç <emres@bilgi.edu.tr>]

Hi Debian masters,

I have installed a Debian box at the office which is mainly a Windows 
network:

emba-master:/home/emres# uname -a
Linux emba-master 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux

Then I also installed SAMBA and CUPS. For now, we can connect to Debian and
use it as a file server. It is also possible to sit in front of the 
machine and print to
the HP LaserJet 1100 connected to it.

*Problem*: I just can't make MS Windows PCs print to HP LaserJet 
installed on Debian.

Here's smb.conf:

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emba-master:/home/emres# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | egrep -v " *(;|#)"

[global]
 workgroup = emba.networks
 server string = %h server (Samba %v)
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 max log size = 1000
 syslog = 0
 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY

[webroot]
 comment  = Web Server Root
 path     = /var/www/apache2-default/web/
 writable = yes

[homes]
 comment  = Home Directories
 browseable = yes

[Programs]
 path     = /home/winshare/programs/
 comment  = Programs
 writable = yes

[Games]
 path     = /home/winshare/games/
 comment  = Games
 writable = yes

[Movies]
 path     = /home/winshare/movies/
 comment  = Movies
 writable = yes

 writable = yes
 create mask = 0777
 directory mask = 0777

[printers]

[print$]
 comment = Printer Drivers
 path = /var/lib/samba/printers
 browseable = yes
 read only = yes
 guest ok = yes

[EmbaPrinter]
      comment = EmbaPrinter
      writeable = yes
      printable = yes
      path = /var/spool/samba
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And cupsaddsmb worked without problems:

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emba-master:/home/emres# cupsaddsmb -H emba-master -U root -h 
emba-master -v EmbaPrinter

Password for root required to access emba-master via SAMBA:
Running command: rpcclient emba-master -N -U'root%XXXXX' -c 'setdriver 
EmbaPrinter EmbaPrinter'
Succesfully set EmbaPrinter to driver EmbaPrinter.
=============================================================

However, when I connect from a MS Windows PC to \\emba-master and see a 
printer
named EmbaPrinter and right-click on it, trying to Connect it doesn't 
provide me any
valid driver (showing an unrelated local folder on my PC).

Besides, as you see above there's a "path = /var/lib/samba/printers" 
line in smb.com
however:

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emba-master:/home/emres# ls -laR /var/lib/samba/printers/
/var/lib/samba/printers/:
toplam 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 W32X86
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 WIN40

/var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..

/var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..
==============================================================

Where are the drivers? Am I doing something wrong?

Another strange situation when I start my Windows Explorer to browse 
\\emba-master
in the "Printers" shared folder I see another printer called "lp dot 
matrix printer" which
I didn't define in smb.conf; I also tried my chance with that, trying to 
install some HP
driver but then I still couldn't print.

What shoul I check? How can I troubleshoot this?

All I need is to be able to print from MS Windows clients to the HP 
LaserJet installed
on Debian (which is working fine locally).

Cheers,
Emre Sevinc
Istanbul Bilgi University