/etc/printcap for samba-shared printer...

Stefan Molnar stefan at csudsu.com
Tue Aug 25 16:54:55 GMT 1998


Well, you do not need the filter because the output from the windows
box is already formated.  It will munge any output.  I have two
entries in the printcap one for the windows and one for the system.
The only diffrence the windows one has not filter and the lp one does.

Stefan

> 	My current entry is:
> 
> deskjet:ps:PS:S:lp:HP DeskJet Printer:\
>         :sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/deskjet:\
>         :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>         :if=/usr/local/libexec/ifhp:\
>         :lf=/var/log/log.printer:
> 
> 	The if filter is the /usr/share/examples/hpif file, for piping
> postscript through ghostscript.
> 
> 	On the Windoze side, I have the HP 560c drivers loaded, and a
> friend mentioned something about just wanted to pass it through straight,
> but getting rid of the if= line doesn't appear to help, so that's not
> doing it right :(
> 
> 	What am I overlooking?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> 
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