[FreeNX-kNX] Printing and sharing issue

Tue Nov 24 15:44:09 UTC 2009

Hi,

Maybe apparmour is blocking the connection.
Try deactivating it and test.

Regards,
Marcelo

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Vivek <vivek at visolve.com> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I have patched the /usr/lib/cups/backend/nxsmb script that you had
> mentioned.
>
> and set SAMBA_MOUNT_SHARE_PROTOCOL="cifs" or
> SAMBA_MOUNT_SHARE_PROTOCOL="both" , printing is not working but file-sharing
> is working fine.
>
> On the nxsession,
>
> printer device uri = nxsmb://127.0.0.1:4000/cifs/HP
>
> After clicking the 'Printing Test Page', the following process were
> starting,
>
> #ps aux|grep cups
> vivek     6594  0.0  0.0   5416  2364 ?        S<   18:52   0:00 HP 1 vivek
> Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:ca694775-8e64-3257-7f56-1e3b843f57bc
> /home/vivek/.nx/C-tsrv-co-1000-0394C5E4B62F543CFCFF0D1434A8C5BE/cups/spool/d00001-001
> vivek     6595  0.0  0.0   8376  2560 ?        S<   18:52   0:00
> /usr/lib/cups/backend//smb 1 vivek Test Page 1
> job-uuid=urn:uuid:ca694775-8e64-3257-7f56-1e3b843f57bc
>
> In the ~home/.nx/C-SESSIONID/cups/error_log,
>
> E [24/Nov/2009:19:07:27 +0530] [Job 1] Connection failed:
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
> E [24/Nov/2009:19:07:27 +0530] [Job 1] Unable to connect to CIFS host, will
> retry in 60 seconds...
>
> but we are able to ping the windows client from Ubuntu server using
> hostname.
>
> Server - Ubuntu 9.04
> Client - Windows XP - SP2 (nomachine's client) (AVG anti-virus is running)
>
> Thanks,
> VIvek
>
> chris at ccburton.com wrote:
>
> Vivek <vivek at visolve.com> wrote on 17/11/2009 14:10:58:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> If any of you is using both printer and file sharing feature on
>> Windows client, please share your configurations here..
>>
>> I am using,
>>
>> Server - Ubuntu 9.04
>> Client - Windows XP professional
>
> Uses cifs by default.
>
>
>>
>>
>> ~vivek
>>
>> Vivek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Server - Ubuntu 9.04
>> Client - Windows
>>
>> I am not able to use both printing and mounting at a time.  If
>> SAMBA_MOUNT_SHARE_PROTOCOL="smbfs",
>
> If you like. Both would be better.
>
>>
>> Printing works. But unable to mount windows shares. Error " failed
>> to mount. mount error. error(112) Host is down ".
>>
>> If SAMBA_MOUNT_SHARE_PROTOCOL="both" or
>> SAMBA_MOUNT_SHARE_PROTOCOL="cifs", we are unable to mount the
>
> With XP both=cifs
>
>
>> windows sharing. but printing not works..
>
>
> I think we need to guess you meant the mount works but printing doesn't.
>
>
> Did you patch /usr/lib/cups/backend/nxsmb   ??
>
>
> --- /usr/lib/cups/backend/nxsmb     2009-10-03 16:26:24.000000000 +0100
> +++ /usr/lib/cups/backend/nxsmb.patched 2009-10-03 17:22:54.000000000 +0100
> @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
>  PROTOCOL=$(echo $DEVICE_URI | cut -d/ -f4)
>  PRINTER=$(echo $DEVICE_URI | cut -d/ -f5)
>
> +## patch to rewrite nxsmb:// as smb:// to make it acceptable to smbspool
> +DEVICE_URI=$(echo $DEVICE_URI | sed "s|nxsmb://|smb://|g" )
> +
>  if [ -z "$PRINTER" ] # old style setup
>  then
>         echo "Warning: Not using nxredir library. The DEVICE_URI is not in
> the right format."
>
>
>
>
>>
>> In the /home/user/.nx/C-**/cups/error_log, " unable to connect cifs
>> host, will try in 60 seconds ".
>>
>> Is any workaround there ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vivek
>>
>>
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