From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) When i try to configure an smb printer with printtool (HP890C), the syntax of the field "share" is worng. When i put the correct information, ex: \\servername\HP890C , its simply dont print and the smbclient show an error saying that the number of slashs is insuficient, so i have to put one more slash to get it working. Its only work if i use \\\servername\HP890C . Anything else dont Work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure an smb printer using printtool, on the field share, put \\servername\printer 2. Try to print, and it doesn't work. 3. change the \\servername\printer to \\\servername\printer and try to print again, now it works. Actual Results: Only prints if the share field has 3 slashs. Expected Results: It must work with the correct parameter, \\servername\printer , instead of \\\servername\printer . Its happens on all RH 7.1 machines that I try to install.
Another way of fixing it is to use forward slashes rather than back slashes. This is more Linux friendly anyway. The point is that samba has accepted these for a couple of years. So: //servername/printer This is less likely to break when red hat fixes the orginal problem.
Actually you should trust the documentation. It clearly states that the proper format for the sharename is "//machinename/sharename", ie. do not use backslashes, use slashes! Anyways, there is a bug in this: after upgrading from RH 7.0 to 7.1 printing to an SMB printer stopped working for me. When I checked the sharename, it was in the backslash format. After changing the backslashes to slashes, printing worked perfectly again. However, updating to RH 7.1 should automatically do this, shouldn't it? Besides that error is almost impossible to notice!
I am smb-printing through a WinNT system to a HP6L printer. After making the change described above, I can ASCII print, but postscript printing does not work. In stead of postacript, I get hundreds of pages of random characters and tons of trash. I have tried it with the "translate \n=>\r\n"option checked and unchecked, I can't see any difference. In the driver options, there are buttons for ReRender postscript and Send EOT, but they won't stay checked.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43905 ***