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At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly:
> Once again the original problem with CUPS appears to have been that I
> installed LPRgn also, and the install program neither warned me or gave me
> some indicaiton how to resolve the ensuing mess.

IIRC, both try to emulate lpr; conflicts are inevitable.  In general,
having more than one printing system installed on a system is a bad
idea...  In all likelihood, problems will arise...

> After fixing that, I see
> [2002/09/16 13:47:03, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(951)
>   print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file 
> /var/spool/cups/smbprn.000008.igz82I.

It sounds like the user samba is running as (which, I think, would be
the user who is trying to print) can not write to the spool directory.
Is it writable?  Is it writable by the (right) user(s)?

> Someone told me there was a serious bug in Samba such that it could
> not resolve -P %p in the print command line, and that I should
> replace it with /dev/lp0, but I still got the same error on Windows.

Uh, I'm pretty sure I've used the macro before with no problems...

> [2002/09/16 13:17:10, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(755)
>   Packet send failed to 66.92.68.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted
> 
> It seems that it's trying to broadcast on my external IP address instead 
> of 192.168.1.255.  Where would I set that?

  http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#BINDINTERFACESONLY

But more importantly, if this thing is connected to the Internet, you
should really block both incoming and outgoing traffic via either a
gateway firewall, or host-based firewall (ipchains/iptables).

> Does anyone think this would be easier if I uninstalled LPRng and 
> printconf?

Yes.  Or, it may not be easier, but it would likely eliminate a
possible complication.  And if you do this, you may find that you then
need to re-install cups, if there were any conflicting files
(symlinks, etc.) which were installed by LPRng.

> Does anyone think I should give up and go back to LPRng, which I had 
> working on my old server?

Well, LPRng is (IME) renowned for being over-complicated.  CUPS, OTOH,
is (again, IME) renowned for being fairly easy to set up and use, and
much more featureful...  I have not used CUPS, and I've only limited
experience with LPRng from quite a while ago; so I can't speka first
hand as to which you should use.


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