Printing with Samba

[William R. Knox]

Ian,
A quick comment on your smb.conf - it is 'printing = lprng', not
'printing = lpring'

Now for a potentially more useful comment - are you sure that LPRng
installed the binaries in /usr/bin? By default, they go into
/usr/local/bin.

And just to let you know, I have no experience with PDQ, but we are
using LPRng here and it works spectacularly (as, of course, does Samba).

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Ian Chilton wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
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> I am running Samba 2.0.6 and am having a problem printing...
> 
> I have attatched my smb.conf file..
> 
> When I run:
> lpr -Phpdj filename
> from the linux box, it prints...
> 
> When i run testprns, it reports that hpdj is a valid printer in
> /etc/printcap
> 
> However, when I print from Windows, over the samba, the files appear in /tmp
> (and stay there..), but the printer doesn't do anything, and nothing seems
> to appear in the queue...
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
> I am currently using LPRing, but I have heard PDQ is better....
> Does PDQ work with Samba??
> What is everyone using to print with Samba (and from Linux)??
> Is anyone else using:
> * a HP Deskjet 690C (or even HP Deskjet 6XX)
> * a Brother HL-1050 Laser
> .that could provide me with config files???
> 
> THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
> 
> Bye for Now,
> 
> Ian
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>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                Name: smb.conf
>    smb.conf    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>            Encoding: quoted-printable