Comment 7 for bug 314543

Hi Chris,

Trying to print using gedit from sudo does not work either, it presents
same error as from my user.
The printer driver is: Epson Stylus Photo 830U - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.0-rc1

I agree that it looks like samba client is not working properly, but
what really puzzles me is that it was working well when I was using
Ubuntu 8.04, but it has started to fail after upgrading to 8.10, and the
fact that for some applications it works well (Open Office,
Thunderbird, and Opera), but not for others (gedit, Firefox, eclipse).

I have just checked the setup for the printing against document

http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html

and the only difference was in the URI; I was using
smb://workgroup/HD-HLAN83B/lp
and I changed it to
smb://workgroup/username:password@HD-HLAN83B/lp

But there is no change of behaviour, it still has problems with gedit,
firefox and eclipse, working with the others mentioned before.

The reason I am using the Buffalo Link Station for sharing the printer,
is hat it is a stand alone networked hard drive with printer sharing
facilities that I bought for this purposes, and the rest of the
computers at home (one Ubuntu 8.04 and a Windows XP laptop) are
accessing it without any problem.
So I would prefer to keep using it.

Is there any other document about the samba settings that could help me
to check if with the changes to CIFS (that I seem to remember were
mentioned in the release notes) I should change any configuration?

Thanks for your help,

Antonio

Chris Crisafulli wrote:
> Can you try opening a document with: sudo gedit <document_example.txt>
> then once it's open print it and see if you get the same error...
>
> After looking at your cups error log It has several lines that might
> indicate a samba configuration issue. Can you take a look at this
> document and confirm this is how you setup your printing?
> http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html
>
> Also in my opinion you would have better results sharing the printer
> through your ubuntu http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint_1.html.
>
> Can you tell me which printer driver your using also?
>
> It will not expire for a while, and I cannot confirm this as a true bug
> when i believe it is more of a possible configuration issue.
>
>