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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PnP printer does not print
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000724134103.21830A-100000@sloth>
In-Reply-To: <20000725083236.A49025@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n>

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Yup, sorry about that. I meant to include the what I had in my smb.conf.
loadprinters = yes
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writeable = no 
   printable = yes

David
Software Engineer - NetManage
Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com
Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu
ICQ 21106703
Washington State Resident


On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 10:33:49PM -0700, David Daugherty wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up a HP P1000 Photosmart printer on a 4.0-R system so
> > that it is accessable for photo printing over our network. The printer
> > shows up just fine on the initial boot:
> > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
> > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
> > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
> > ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD PHOTOSMART P1000> MLC,PCL,PML
> > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> > But when I try to print a test page after adding the printer to an NT box
> > it fails.
> 
> Hang on here. You're trying to print from an NT box to the printer
> connected on the FreeBSD box? Have you configured samba?
> -- 
> Jonathan Chen                                       Once is dumb luck.
>                                                  Twice is coincidence.
>              Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.
> 



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