Can someone please

[Chris Wagner]

So I've been reading up on the Samba client and have Samba running on
this Yellow Dog 3.0 install, and in reading the man pages on the
smbclient, it suggested a command-line type interface to try printing.

So I got into a console window and did the following:

$ /smbclient //server_name/share -P/

That is followed by a /Password:/ prompt, at which I typed the default
user password.

I then got this prompt:

smb: >

at which I typed /print filename printer_name/ and it printed a standard
text file (the INSTALL file from the program I was trying to install).

Problem I'm having is that in setting this printer up in CUPS, I connect
to http://localhost:631 and then go to Manage Printers and setup the
Epson as a printer that used "Windows printing via SAMBA". I then set
the uri to:

Device URI: /smb://server_name/share/

At this point, I keep getting an error in CUPS that says:/

"Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...Cupsomatic
backend version $Revision: 2.13 $ running..."/

I'm at a loss here. Do I need to configure something in the Samba server
package to allow this thing to print?

Why does the smbclient print but CUPS won't allow me to use it as a
legitimate printer?

Do I need to configure something in the SMB client?

Thanks, all.

Chris

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