[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

[reader@newsguy.com]

"Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:

> On 9/16/06, reader@newsguy.com <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> Richard, I'm sorry it seems I've really wasted lots of your time here.
>> However I don't think this is the only problem.  I really hope there
>> is not some other moronic user miconfig...
>
> np.  I missed it too for several messages. :-)
>
>> I'm still unable to print (EVEN WITH THAT CURSED URL FIXED).
>
> I think the problem here is that my script is screwing things up.  I
> actually had no idea what $0 would be in this case (thus the note that
> "this is just a guess" ;-)).  It looks like when cups is calling
> smbspool, $0 is the name of the program, and not the URI of the device
> (see man smbspool to understand why I was uncertain here!).  And I am
> changing DEVICE_URI to be whatever $0 was...which is wrong.
>
> So the fixed script should be
>
> ------
> #!/bin/bash
> tmpfile=/tmp/smbspool.$$
> echo $0:$1:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6:$7 > $tmpfile
> env >>$tmpfile
>
> /usr/bin/smbspool.bin $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 >>$tmpfile
> ------
>
> But actually at this point I think you can just move smbspool.bin back
> to smbspool, and things should work ok.

Ok... and away we go...  printing works now.

Richard what do you make of the fact that I cannot connect to cups
with the normal http://locahost:631?

I've seen a few posts here from others who have noticed it too.

http://localhost:631/admin

 or 

http://localhost:631/help

Will get a connection, but in the past a simple:
    http://localhost:631 was enough.

That now gets a 404 Not Found  

error_log has this:

D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:22 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 7 Browser asked for language "en-us.utf-8"...
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:22 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:22 -0500] cupsdSendError: 7 code=404 (Not Found)
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 7
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631 (IPv4)
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 7 GET /cups.css HTTP/1.1
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 7 Browser asked for language "en-us.utf-8"...
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdSendError: 7 code=404 (Not Found)
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 7
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631 (IPv4)
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 7 GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 7 Browser asked for language "en-us.utf-8"...
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdSendError: 7 code=404 (Not Found)
D [17/Sep/2006:06:40:23 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 7

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