With a little persistence I found out why I could not get my printer with
destination smb://xxxxx/printer to work (xxxxx is the hostname of my lan
master box (WinME).  The error log for cups showed that the last operation
was to invoke /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (return code was 2), but there was
no such file!  I compared my Caldera Sybil system and found that smb is a
symlink to /usr/bin/smbspool.  Made the symlink, and samba printing now
works.

I couldn't find any reference to this in the cups documentation.  Is this
an oversight or error in the portage pkg for cups?

One mystery remains.  The gui lpadmin function still reports that I have no
printers defined to cups, when I really have a local and a samba printer
defined.  Other functions of lpadmin, like jobs, seem to work ok.

Any clues?

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Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system