Re: SV: Citirx Printing problems

Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pxes.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Two tips:
1) Be sure to Enable Local Printer and check Use SAMBA to share devices
2) Folow Robert's excelent step by step howto

If you want to check that samba is running use
# netstat -na

Robert Yaklin wrote:

>Did you read this?
>
>http://sotxlighthouse.org/pxes/MicrosoftPrintingHowto.html
>
>Robert
>
>at 08:13, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
>  
>
>>On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 05:35, Eliassen Einar (ErgoGroup) wrote:
>>    Hello
>>    
>>    Just a few quick questions....
>>    
>>    
>>    What Citrix version are you using ? (Server)
>>    What Citrix client are you using ?
>>PXES 0.7 supports ICA Client 6.30.1052 and 7.00.77757.
>>    
>>    
>>    Einar Eliassen
>>    
>>    -----Opprinnelig melding-----
>>    Fra: Micah Abrams [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>    Sendt: 6. februar 2004 06:16
>>    Til: [email protected]
>>    Kopi: [email protected]
>>    Emne: [pxes-devel] Citirx Printing problems
>>    
>>    
>>    Dear list :
>>    
>>    We are trying to re-use Pentium III computers that are being retired as Thin
>>    Clients using pxes.  We are using version .7 of PXES to boot from a TFTP
>>    server that hosts the image file.  Here is the boot sequence for the Test
>>    computer using this method:
>>    
>>    1. Power on
>>    2. Query DHCP
>>    3. Receive IP, Subnet, DNS, TFTP server IP from DHCP server (Windows
>>    2000)
>>    4. BOOT network using PXE
>>    5. Contact TFTP server specified by DHCP
>>    6. Download linux image and bootloader
>>    7. de-compress linux image and run bootloader
>>    8. bootloader loads linux image
>>    9. Citrix ICA for Linux is executed and connects to Citrix Server (Windows
>>    2000)
>>    10. User authenticates to Terminal Services
>>    11. User logs into Citrix Server
>>    
>>    Once logged in to the citrix session, everything works as expected from the
>>    user perspective EXCEPT printing.  Each workstation has an HP deskjet
>>    printer attached directly to its lpt port.  We can print raw data directly
>>    to the lpt port
>>    (/dev/printers/0)
>>    so we know the physical connection is working.  Unfortunately, we can not
>>    get any other printing working.  We have tried piping print jobs directly to
>>    lpr and while the jobs do show up in the spool, they fail to ever print.  We
>>    have searched the FAQ's and the Forum to no avail.  Our next thought is to
>>    perhaps install samba and try printing that way.  We are hoping you guys can
>>    provide us with some pointers.  We are planning on rolling this out to about
>>    300 desktops however, local printing is a MUST.
>>    
>>    I have double checked to make sure the local printing option is selected
>>    during the image creation process.  We are open to any and all suggestions
>>    and are looking forward to your responses.  Please feel free to reply off
>>    list if you feel it is more appropriate.
>>    
>>    Thanks in advance,
>>    
>>    Micah
>>    
>>    on a side note:  During our image creation, we chose the "use samba" option.
>>    When the image booted however, there was no samba process (smbd or nmbd)
>>    running and I could not find any local smb.conf.  What are we missing?
>>    
>>    
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