PLEASE help with printing problem

[Matthew Vanecek]

Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:28 +1000, hai scritto:
> 
> >I set up a new printer on my Linux box, an Epson Stylus Color 740.  I
> >had previously been using an EPson Stylus Color IIs.  I got the printer
> >working nicely in Linux, but I can not print to the printers I set up in
> >/etc/printcap via samba from NT anymore.  I.e., it worked with the IIs,
> >but not with the 740.  I didn't change anything in smb.conf.
> 
> Try printing to that printer via samba from linux and see what happens.
> smbclient ''\\server\printer' -P
> print filename
> 

That works.  no problem.  Works on any of the printer definitions.

> As the last resort you can print using nt tcp/ip printing.
> 

As in, "net use yada yada"?  That's how I have it now, with one of the
printer defs captured to lpt1.  But that only lets me use one of the
definitions.  What about if I want to use one of the others?

There's got to be a reason why "The parameter is incorrect".  Is there a
way to find this out?
		
-- 
Matthew Vanecek
Course of Study: http://www.unt.edu/bcis
Visit my Website at http://people.unt.edu/~mev0003
For answers type: perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
*****************************************************************
For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow
except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...