problems printing over samba

[Colin Law]

On 14 May 2013 21:04, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu machine used as an occasional desktop & lightweight
> home server.  It runs cups & samba for printing from a couple of other
> devices.
>
> My wife's old Windows 2000 desktop often had problems reaching the
> printer, but her new Windows 8 (I know, sorry!) laptop found it & used
> it without any problems from day 1.
>
> Since I upgraded (or at least mostly upgraded --- see other post)
> the Ubuntu server to 13.04 yesterday, she's been having problems
> printing to the same hostname & printer share.  If I log into the
> server & run "sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart" and "sudo
> /etc/init.d/smbd restart", it works again.
>
> My Ubuntu :-) laptop runs CUPS & uses the ipp URL for the printer, &
> has worked consistently through various versions of Ubuntu on the
> laptop & the server since I figured out the right ipp URL.
>
> I'd appreciate any debugging suggestions for this.

The cups error log is in  /var/log/cups/error_log which might (or
might not) show something useful.
Do you have to restart both samba and cups?

Colin

>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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