[LUNI] smbprint

[theodore.sanders at att.net]

I am trying to get smbprint to access a printer on my 
windows 98 machine.  O'reilly tells me to add an entry 
for the remote printer in /etc/printcap.  The global 
parameter load printers = yes.  As I understand this is 
supposed to cause samba to create and load shares for 
the printers.  When I enter the information in the 
printcap file it looks fine.  However, if I 
cat /etc/printcap all that shows up is the original 
entry of lp:  I go back to edit and the information that 
I entered is still there.  I rebooted the linux machine 
thinking that this would recognize the information on 
the remote printer.  However, rebooting caused the 
information that I had entered to be deleted.  I tried 
changing the permissions on the file. I got cat to work 
but rebooting still deleted the information that I had 
entered.

Any ideas as to correct this or where to find 
information on trouble shooting this problem would be 
appreciated.  

smbclient works at least to access the disks on my 
microsoft computers and to list the directories and 
files on the disks.  I have not tried to go beyond that.

My ms98 machine can store files on the linux machine and 
read these back and use them.

My distro is Mandrake 8.0 and samba is version 2.0.7. 

Ted

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