topic Re: samba cups printing difficulty in Operating System - Linux

samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:10:03 GMT

Hi,
I am new to linux. I had cups configured and working fine until i started
running samba. After that i am not able to get any printouts. The
http://localhost:631 is working and this interface shows the job as
pending for ever. The printer state seem to be idle and accepting jobs.
But the printouts never came out. I checked the error log and tried to
make sense from it. I couldn't figure out anything even after changing the
loglevel to debug.
This is tail part of my error log

[26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] [Job 13] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength =
792.0
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] [Job 13] 0 %%Trailer
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] [Job 13] Saw Trailer!
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] [Job 13] Saw EOF!
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] UpdateJob: job 13, file 0 is complete.
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] StopJob: id = 13, force = 0
D [26/Aug/2003:21:08:59 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3

Later i found that the printcap generated by cupsd.conf seems incomplete.
It has only the printer names. It does not have any other details. Could
this be the problem ?

Please help me out. I have been stuck in this for nearly a week now !!!

Velu.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:22:27 GMT

Ok a few dumb questions.

After configuring samba, could you no longer send jobs from the command line using the 'lp' commands?

What are the printer settings you've used in your 'smb.conf'?

Now, as for the printcap comment, no. They are fine. As Cups doesn't *USE* a printcap, the incomplete values are valid. It's only there to provide a list of printers to older software which relies upon the /etc/printcap for the list of valid printers.

Depending on your configuration of Samba depends on which subsystem it will try to use to get the printer list, and hwo to send jobs to a printer.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:03:48 GMT

Hi,

First of all, Thanks a lot for your reply.

>Ok a few dumb questions.

>After configuring samba, could you no longer >send jobs from the command line using the 'lp' >commands?

I can send jobs from command line. But the problem is, the jobs sent are pending for ever. It never seem to reach the printer. I can see the files spooled in /var/spool/samba. But none are printed.

>What are the printer settings you've used in >your 'smb.conf'?

[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
writable = no
guest ok = yes
printable = Yes
browseable = No
printer admin = root, velu

[L2]
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
printer name = L2
oplocks = No

[Herberger]
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
printer name = Herberger
oplocks = No

These are my printer settings in smb.conf

Please let me know. Thanks

Velu.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:32:48 GMT

Ok, can send jobs from the command line. Good.

This means that the printing sub-systems are working fine.

What is not working is the Samba configuration.

Lets have a look at that then.

> [printers]
> path = /var/spool/samba
> writable = no
> guest ok = yes
> printable = Yes
> browseable = No
> printer admin = root, velu
> [L2]
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = Yes
> printer name = L2
> oplocks = No
> [Herberger]
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = Yes
> printer name = Herberger
> oplocks = No

What you've not said are the GLOBAL printing settings, for instance the one called:

printing =

From memory, it defaults to 'LPRNG' style of printing. Try forcing this to 'CUPS' (as listed in 'man smb.conf'), restarting samba, and see if that fixes it.

If not, try forcing the 'lpq command' to be the same sort of command as you use on the command line.

Some more things to look at for you ;)

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:35:40 GMT

oops... I am sorry i forgot to paste the global section of my smb.conf

[global]
workgroup = SIMPHOENIX
encrypt passwords = Yes
log level = 1
max log size = 1000
wins support = Yes
hosts allow = localhost.localdomain
hosts deny = ALL
printing = cups
printcap name = cups

This is what i have in the global section.
It didn't work for this configuration.
Thanks once again
Velu.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:51:07 GMT

Ok then, set the global 'print command =' setting to be an 'lp' command that prints jobs, using %s as the file name, and %p as the queue name. Somthing similar to this:

print command = lp -c -d%p -oraw %s && rm %s

This is what I use on a SCO OpenServer system, so you'll want to alter it slightly to suit Linux.

You'll not need the '-c' (as both Linux printing subsystems copy the job by default).

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:52:32 GMT

Oops, forgot to mention. The '-oraw' is there 'cause the Windows Printing subsystem has already formatted the job, so it just needs to be spat out of the Linux queues, not processed further.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 04:55:22 GMT

Hi,
I tried giving the print command. It is still not working. I tried looking in the error log of cups. I have given a snap shot of the error log where there might be a problem. Please have a look at the place where it says "No such file or directory" "/usr/lib/cups/backend///129.219.73.160"
This is what it is looking for. Is this the problem. I am not sure what it is looking for. Please let me know.

Thanks a lot for your immediate reply.
Velu.

print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root'
I [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] Job 14 queued on 'L2' by 'root'.
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] Job 14 hold_until = 0
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob(14, 0x8092e98)
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob() id = 14, file = 0/1
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] job-sheets=none,none
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] banner_page = 0
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: argv = "L2","14","root","column","1","","/var/spool/samba/d00014-001"
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: envp = "PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin","SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1","USER=root","CHARSET=iso-8859-1","LANG=en_US","","PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/L2.ppd","CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups","RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m","TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp","CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-raw","DEVICE_URI=//129.219.73.160","PRINTER=L2","CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups","CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts","","",""
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: statusfds = 7, 8
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = 9, -1
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend///129.219.73.160"
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 10
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend///129.219.73.160", 0xbfff06f0, 0xbffefba0, 9, 10, 8)
E [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] PID 20820 stopped with status 22!
I [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend///129.219.73.160 (PID -20820) for job 14.
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
D [27/Aug/2003:22:44:17 -0700] [Job 14] /usr/lib/cups/backend///129.219.73.160: No such file or directory

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:16:38 GMT

Judging by those lines, I'd assume it requires that directory. What does the /usr/lib/cups/backend/ directory contain? Restart cups, and check that directory again, still no joy?

I would assume that sending a job from the command line would fail as well if this was a core directory.

All samba is doing is launching a print-job command-line when one comes in, the same as if you typed 'lp -d '.

Have you tried doing the standard 'lp' comamnd and looking at the logs to see if a normal job works/fails/spits out errors?

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:47:25 GMT

Judging by those lines, I'd assume it requires that directory. What does the /usr/lib/cups/backend/ directory contain? Restart cups, and check that directory again, still no joy?

[simphoenix@localhost simphoenix]$ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend/
[simphoenix@localhost backend]$ ls
canon http lpd parallel scsi smb usb
epson ipp ncp ptal serial socket
[simphoenix@localhost backend]$

This is what it contains.

I would assume that sending a job from the command line would fail as well if this was a core directory.

So far all the print job i gave are from command line using lp command.

All samba is doing is launching a print-job command-line when one comes in, the same as if you typed 'lp -d '.

Have you tried doing the standard 'lp' comamnd and looking at the logs to see if a normal job works/fails/spits out errors?

I am sorry. I dont understand what you mean by standard lp command. Please be more specific.

Thanks a lot
Velu.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:18:39 GMT

>>I would assume that sending a job from the command line would fail as well if this was a core directory.

>So far all the print job i gave are from command line using lp command.

What lp command are you using?

>>All samba is doing is launching a print-job command-line when one comes in, the same as if you typed 'lp -d '.
>>Have you tried doing the standard 'lp' comamnd and looking at the logs to see if a normal job works/fails/spits out errors?

>I am sorry. I dont understand what you mean by standard lp command. Please be more specific.

The command you used above.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

roopa — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:33:05 GMT

What lp command are you using?

At first i was using....
lp -d %p -o filename

When you said about oraw i used...
lp -d %p -oraw filename.

If you look at the error log i pasted in my previous post, you will see that the process has been stopped with status 22. What does this status 22 mean.
Is there any way to find about this status 22? This might probably be a reason.

Thanks
Velu.

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Stuart Browne — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:04:48 GMT

I don't know what status 22 is.. but change your reference to 'filename' to '%s', i.e.

print command = lp -d %p -oraw %s

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Mark Grant — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:55:48 GMT

Hi,

You might get more information if you change the debug level for cupsd. On Slackware it is /etc/cups/cupsd.conf but your mileage may vary. You can edit the "LogLevel" from the default of logging just requests and state changes to logging absolutely everything.

This may get more information that would be useful

Re: samba cups printing difficulty

Ross Carver — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:59:51 GMT

I hope this helps, but instead of having the "/etc/printcap" destination in the smb.conf, change it simply to "cups". Also,
go into the /etc/cups directory and edit the mime.* files.

Uncomment the commented lines at the end of each of these files which look like this:

application/octet-stream

This will substitute more consistently for the
print-command line in your smb.conf file.

Try that.

Oh, and you say you can't even execute the following command:

cat /etc/hosts | lpr ???

If this doesn't help, try the samba documentation...its long but its really good.

http://www.samba.org

~Ross