lil gorsebush penguin Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 I'm at Uni and I get the internet through their broadband network thing... Had enough problems getting that to work since they run on XP ( people!) Now everything in that area works except that I've been having problems with my printer!! I'll print a few things, turn it off and when i turn it on again it prints out on all the paper that's on the rack: "This program cannot run in DOS mode" !!! Now I went through the whole CUPS configuration and it's not available to other computers nor can I find remote printers from other machines! But when I go to the CUPS admin tool, suddenly there are milloins of "jobs" pending from people who aren't me! I don't understand!! I guess my whole problem is linked to the network at my Uni but how can I fix it?? I keep having to remove and then add my printer when I want to print something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 /bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil gorsebush penguin Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 /bump ??? ok i'm a complete novice in console codes and everything (i don't even know the correct terminology) what do you mean by /bump ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 It means someone posted to it so it gets moved up the queue Like this .... /bump Its just gone back to being the LAST item posted too. Sometinmes you see something that you sdon't know the answer to BUT you expect someone else will and you move it up the queue ,.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil gorsebush penguin Posted November 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 (edited) anyone?? luckily i talked to a computer friend of mine (IT and all) and he told me it was because of my Samba thing (please may all linux users fogive me for uding the word "thing" after Samba but being a noobie i don't really know the entire terminology - i promise to learn them eventually!) so all i had to do was delete it either way, just thought i' post up the solution to my question in case anyone else has the same problem!! Edited November 4, 2003 by lil gorsebush penguin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted November 3, 2003 Report Share Posted November 3, 2003 Well, I'm glad you figured it out, I certainly couldn't have helped much. Samba and I don't get along. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 Me I have worked a little with Samba but I didn't understand the problem nor the solution... roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 (edited) Well ????? It isn\t a SAMBA problem, that is SAMBA will only share what its asked to share. Something is adding the printer. lilgbp: Can you post the contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf .. Just open in an editor (like kwrite) and paste into a post. Disabling SAMBA is one way.... but surely there\s a way to add a printer in DRAKPRINTER and NOT share it? The little tickbox doesn\t seem to help, shared/unshared seems the same. Perhaps adding it directly in CUPS ??? Anyone .... Edited November 5, 2003 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 SAMBA:::: Well, I checked my default Mandrake configuration. Its set up VERY insecurely especially for printers. If you add a cups printer it is automatically shared to the world without authentification. Printers are all browsable and mappable to guest. As a precaution I'd suggest (I used double # to indicate what I commented) # 2. Printing Options: # CHANGES TO ENABLE PRINTING ON ALL CUPS PRINTERS IN THE NETWORK # (as cups is now used in linux-mandrake 7.2 by default) # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this ## If you don't want others to use your printers then comment out as below. ## printcap name = cups ## load printers = yes # It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless # yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx, cups ## printing = cups # Samba 2.2 supports the Windows NT-style point-and-print feature. To # use this, you need to be able to upload print drivers to the samba # server. The printer admins (or root) may install drivers onto samba. # Note that this feature uses the print$ share, so you will need to # enable it below. # This parameter works like domain admin group: # printer admin = @<group> <user> printer admin = @adm # This should work well for winbind: ; printer admin = @"Domain Admins" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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