%J to print filename in windows 2000
Jonathan Michael Hawkins
spiritu at northwestern.edu
Thu Oct 10 06:54:01 GMT 2002
Hello--
I've been perusing the lists searching for a solution to my problem.
This problem exists in Samba 2.2.2 and Samba 2.2.5 with LPRng 3.7.4 on a
RedHat Linux 7.2 server, with Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients.
What's happening is that filenames are not getting passed to lpr. After
perusing the lists and newsgroups I found that adding "-J'%J'" to the lpr
command is supposed to fix the issue.
However, this is not what appears to be occurring. Instead, in 2.2.2 it
remains "smb.prn" or "smbprn.XXXXXX" with XXXXXX being a pseudo-random
number. I'd hope that it is possible to have, say "mydocument.doc" come
up when I'm printing that, in order to facilitate job logging and printer
accounting.
My instincts tell me this is an NT issue, but it's one that would be nice
to have resolved. Can anyone give me some pointers on where to begin
searching the code for NT printing, or have any ideas? I've looked
through and found where the %J option gets set by Samba in printing.c, but
have not been able to track down where that's supposed to get passed from
nor why it's not happening.
Pointers to documentation, etc., or a solution, would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!
Jonathan Hawkins
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