[Samba] print jobs to a Windows connected printer disappear

[Joel Hammer]

Yes, smbclient is bypassing all filters. The file has to be filtered
to print on this printer. A simple text file is likely meaningless to
your printer.
This issue get complicated, fast. How do you intend to filter this job so
your printer will understand it?
I can't find much support for your 7200. If you have it in your CUPS
version, you will always have to print with it, and not use smbclient alone.
Use smbclient only after you have filtered the job.
Joel




On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:43:01PM -0400, Nicholas Sushkin wrote:
> Joel,
> 
> I thought smbclient would send a file directly to the printer bypassing any
> filters. I was trying to print a simple text file called "test" (see my
> original message for smbclient command). In general, I used KDE Control
> Panel/CUPS Printer configuration to set up the following printer:
> 
> 
> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.14
> # Written by cupsd on Fri 26 Jul 2002 09:30:32 PM GMT
> <DefaultPrinter Lexmark7>
> Info Lexmark 7200
> Location vstrecha.sushkins.net
> DeviceURI smb://root:*****@vstrecha/Lexmark7
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> 
> The Lexmark 7200 was one of the supported printers, so a ppd file got
> copied.
> 
> [root at chistaki root]# ls -l /etc/cups/ppd
> total 16
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15337 Jul 26 17:30 Lexmark7.ppd
> 
> Do you I need to configure anything else? I am a little new to Linux
> printing, so I am not exactly sure which way the data flows from filesystem
> to the printer.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:51 PM
> To: Nicholas Sushkin; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] print jobs to a Windows connected printer disappear
> 
> 
> This sounds like you are not sending properly formatted print jobs to the
> server.
> How are you filtering your jobs before you send them?
> Joel
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0400, Nicholas Sushkin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to set up printing from a RedHat 7.3 machine to a Lexmark
> > printer connected to a Win2k Pro machine.
> >
> > The printer share appears in the share list fine. However, when I use
> > smbclient to print, nothing happens. See transcript below.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > [nsushkin at chistaki nsushkin]$ smbclient -L vstrecha
> > added interface ip=192.168.2.3 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.2.4 )
> > Password:
> > Domain=[SUSHKINS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> >
> >         Sharename      Type      Comment
> >         ---------      ----      -------
> >         video          Disk
> >         scans          Disk
> >         IPC$           IPC       Remote IPC
> >         D$             Disk      Default share
> >         print$         Disk      Printer Drivers
> >         Download       Disk
> >         Manuals        Disk
> >         Lexmark7       Printer   Lexmark 7000 Series ColorFine
> >         mp3            Disk
> >         nsushkin       Disk
> >         divx           Disk
> >         ADMIN$         Disk      Remote Admin
> >         C$             Disk      Default share
> >         PWRCHUTE       Disk
> >
> >         Server               Comment
> >         ---------            -------
> >
> >         Workgroup            Master
> >         ---------            -------
> > [nsushkin at chistaki nsushkin]$
> > [nsushkin at chistaki nsushkin]$ smbclient //vstrecha/Lexmark7
> > added interface ip=192.168.2.3 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.2.4 )
> > Password:
> > Domain=[SUSHKINS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> > smb: \> queue
> > smb: \> !ls
> > Desktop  j2sdkee-1_3_1-linux.tar.gz  Mail  mailchannel  nsmail  test
> > smb: \> print test
> > putting file test as test (0.1 kb/s) (average 0.1 kb/s)
> > smb: \> queue
> > smb: \> quit
> > [nsushkin at chistaki nsushkin]$
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nick
> >
> >
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