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papayeti
07-13-2003, 11:21 PM
Hi,

I had Samba working on this machine, but I swapped some hard drives, and had to reinstall RH9. I saved the working smb.conf file, so it shouldn't be causing any problems. The printer is set up and working from the local computer, and I can share a directory without any problems, but when I try to share the printer, nothing happens. There are no errors from the Windows machine at all.

The /var/log/messages and the /var/log/samba/* files show nothing out of the ordinary, except for /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.

Here are the last few lines of log.nmbd:
find_response_record: response packet id 3705 received with no matching record.
[2003/07/13 21:39:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(59)
Got SIGTERM: going down...
[2003/07/13 21:39:09, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794)
Netbios nameserver version 2.2.7a started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
[2003/07/13 21:39:13, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235)
find_response_record: response packet id 5655 received with no matching record.
[2003/07/13 21:39:13, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235)
find_response_record: response packet id 5656 received with no matching record.

I tried to include everything, but let me know if you need any more information. Thanks in advance.

papayeti
07-15-2003, 12:53 AM
I can print test pages from CUPS and I can also print from smbclient, but I still can't print from Windows. I tried installing the drivers on two different Windows XP machines, and neither could print across the network. There is nothing new in /var/log/ pertaining to Samba, and the Windows machines still don't report an error.

papayeti
07-15-2003, 04:50 PM
I can also print from another RH9 machine on the network using smbclient. I tried "printmode text" and "printmode graphics", and they both worked. (I tested with a small .txt file and a .png icon)