{SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

ichase · 2012-12-14 00:13:33

Greetings all,
Have found myself in a pickle that has got me scratching my head.
For a while now, I have had a headless server set up with Arch Linux with SAMBA and CUPS installed. All computers in the house have had the printer set as default and have been working fine. Have not had to print anything in about a week. Wife went to print a coupon and told me that it would not print.
I went to my Windows computer and sure enough, the printer no longer even shows up on the network. I have not touched my smb.conf or changed any CUPS parameters so I am stumped why the printer is no longer accessable.
When I go into my CUPS Web Interface it shows the printer and shows it as idle
Officejet_7300 Automatically setup by HPLIP HP Officejet 7300 Series, hpcups 3.12.10a Idle

Here is my smb.conf which like I mentioned earlier has not been touched.

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
	log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
	printer = HP_7400
	guest account = nobody
	load printers = yes
	printing = cups
	server string = Samba Server
	path = /var/spool/samba
	workgroup = WORKGROUP
	hosts allow = 192.168.0. 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
	security = share
	max log size = 50






;   printcap name = /etc/printcap

;   printcap name = lpstat





# These scripts are used on a domain controller or stand-alone 
# machine to add or delete corresponding unix accounts
;  add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u
;  add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
;  add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %u
;  delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
;  delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g
;  delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g


#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
;[homes]
;   comment = Home Directories
;   browseable = no
;   writable = yes

;[Profiles]
;    path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
;    browseable = no
;    guest ok = yes

[Storage]
   comment = Home Data Storage
   path = /home/storage
   valid users = ichase ian sharon
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   browsable = yes
   create mask = 0777
   directory mask = 0777

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        browseable = yes
        Set public = yes
        guest ok = yes
        writable = yes
	printable = yes

The Storage drive is still accessable by all computers in the house. This would be a piece of cake if I had actually gone in and changed something but nothing has been changed. Not sure when the printer decided to take a hiatus.

Thanks as always for your help and if there is any other files or command output I can provide, let me know.

Ian

Last edited by ichase (2012-12-14 23:27:04)

ewaller · 2012-12-14 04:11:44

HP's are great printers, but in my experience, they sometimes enter a mode where they just contemplate their navel until you restart them. Have you tried that?

WonderWoofy · 2012-12-14 04:42:57

With all the advancements in computing technology, I often wonder why it seems as though printer technology is still stuck somewhere in the mid ninties. Sometimes I think that printer manufacturers purposely make their configuration stoopidly delicate in order to terrorize the minds of techies everywhere.

ichase · 2012-12-14 23:13:19

ewaller - good point, I actually did try shutting down the printer and turning it back on. But to no avail. I may not have touched any of the configuration files but I have run updates on the server via secure shell from my laptop. So one of the updates may have caused this issue. I believe that maybe the HP driver may have been updated and that could be the issue. May need to look at going back to the older version of the driver.

WonderWoofy - Thanks for the response, as mentioned above (and actually it just came to mind when I was typing it) the updated driver may have caused the issue. Drivers and support has come a long way in regards to Linux though there is definitely more work that can be done.

ichase · 2012-12-14 23:28:34

BINGO that is exactly what it was. I downgraded to the driver I originally installed HPLIP-3.12.10.a-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz and the printer is back. I have edited pacman.conf to ignore this package upgrade in the future.

Thanks for the responses.

Ian

Arch Linux

#1 2012-12-14 00:13:33

{SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

#2 2012-12-14 04:11:44

Re: {SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

#3 2012-12-14 04:42:57

Re: {SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

#4 2012-12-14 23:13:19

Re: {SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

#5 2012-12-14 23:28:34

Re: {SOLVED}SAMBA/CUPS Printer gone on both Linux and Windows Computers

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