My workplace wanted a NT server for DOS 6.22 clients replaced by a Samba server. No problem. Disk shares worked fine. But when it came to printing, this happened:
>net use lpt1 \\samba-server\printername
>copy con lpt1
Testing
^Z
Blah blah Path not found
I looked at the log file for the client in question and found these lines:
[2013/10/01 14:02:22.820899,3] smbd/vfs.c:905(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [DEV/LPT1] [/var/spool/samba]
[2013/10/01 14:02:22.820941,3] smbd/vfs.c:944(check_reduced_name) check_reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for DEV/LPT1 (NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND)
Ah, was it trying to create a file called DEV/LPT1 in /var/spool/samba? But there is no subdirectory called DEV. So I did this:
# cd /var/spool/samba
# ln -s . DEV
Voila, printing worked from DOS. I can only surmise that DOS sends the whole path rather than just LPT1 to Samba or indeed any SMB server.
Hope this helps you if you need to convert any DOS clients to use Samba instead of NT.
>net use lpt1 \\samba-server\printername
>copy con lpt1
Testing
^Z
Blah blah Path not found
I looked at the log file for the client in question and found these lines:
[2013/10/01 14:02:22.820899,3] smbd/vfs.c:905(check_reduced_name) check_reduced_name [DEV/LPT1] [/var/spool/samba]
[2013/10/01 14:02:22.820941,3] smbd/vfs.c:944(check_reduced_name) check_reduce_name: couldn't get realpath for DEV/LPT1 (NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND)
Ah, was it trying to create a file called DEV/LPT1 in /var/spool/samba? But there is no subdirectory called DEV. So I did this:
# cd /var/spool/samba
# ln -s . DEV
Voila, printing worked from DOS. I can only surmise that DOS sends the whole path rather than just LPT1 to Samba or indeed any SMB server.
Hope this helps you if you need to convert any DOS clients to use Samba instead of NT.
