How to display print jobs on Windows 95?

Jonathan Crompton J.Crompton at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Feb 16 19:59:02 GMT 1998


On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:28:22 PST
Katie Ng <kkn at odetics.com> wrote:

> Does any one know how to get the print jobs on the samba server
> displayed on Windows 95's print queue?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> The following is a sample of  my smb.conf:
> 
> [global]
>    printing = sysv
>    printcap name = /opt/samba/lib/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    guest account = nobody
> 
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /tmp
>    browseable = no
>    printable = yes
>    public = yes
>    writable = no
>    create mode = 0700
>    print command = /usr/bin/lp -c -d %p %s;rm %s
>    lpq command = /usr/ucb/lpq -P%p
>    lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j     

If you have specified "printing = sysv" then samba is expecting the
result of running "lpq command" to be the output from an "lpstat -o %p"
command.

Jonathan.


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