Printing in TNG

[Inge-Håvard Hunstad]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> At 05:37 AM 2/22/00 +1100, Steve Litt wrote:
> >Inge,
> >
> >What you describe is the as-designed performance of Samba as configured by
> >the Red Hat distro. With Red Hat, you need to hard code printing, print
> >command, and any other commands you regularly use (lprm command, for
> >instance). You'll also need to change the printcap name= to /etc/printcap.
> >If you get a SWAT problem mentioning lpstat, the printcap name= change will
> >fix it.
> 
> Hmmm, a small correction.  With the old versions of Samba, this is true.
> The RH 2.0.3 RPM did have a bug like Inge describes below, but an upgrade
> to 2.0.5a fixes that problem.
> 
> However, there was also an underlying bug in Samba (fixed in 2.0.7, I
> think) where we were handling various printing-related parameters correctly.
> 
> >As an alternative, I download the Samba 2.0.x .tgz and compile and make.
> >I've found that to yield a better setup, and it doesn't default to sysv
> >printing.
> >
> >Steve Litt
> >

Ok maybe I wasn't clear enough. The little TNG in the subject field
wasn't big enough:) I have to write it in the body next time:) Sorry
folks! This is a matter with samba_TNG so if this was fixed in samba
2.0.7 maybe I have to wait for the big merge before this "error" is
fixed. I thanks for trying to help me anyway!

Sorry for bugging you. I just try to report all the error I can find
with TNG so that maybe they can be fixed be for a stable release is out.

Thanks!

inge

> >At 03:50 AM 02/22/2000 +1100, Inge-Håvard Hunstad wrote:
> >>When I try to change printing system from the default "sysv" to "bsd" in
> >>smb.conf the printing commands doesn't seem to change. When I run
> >>testparm after changing the "printing" parameter it looks like this:
> >>
> >>        print ok = No
> >>        postscript = No
> >>        printing = bsd
> >>        print command = lp -c -d%p %s; rm %s
> >>        lpq command = lpstat -o%p
> >>        lprm command = cancel %p-%j
> >>        lppause command = lp -i %p-%j -H hold
> >>        lpresume command = lp -i %p-%j -H resume
> >>        queuepause command = lpc stop %p
> >>        queueresume command = lpc start %p
> >>        printer name =
> >>        printer driver = NULL
> >>        printer driver location =
> >>
> >>At least I didn't know that BSD printing used lp and lpstat so I think
> >>there is an error somewhere.
> >>
> >>Thanks for all help.
> >>
> >>inge