Printing with Samba

[John Hawley]

Ian,

Try adding the 'check_for_nonprintable@' flag to your printcap as in the
following example.


prt1730 :cm=HP Deskjet 870Cse in Comm (JZaher)
 :lp=172.16.1.99%9100
 :check_for_nonprintable@
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/prt1730
 :mx0:sh
 :if=/var/spool/lpd/prt1730/filter


> 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,
> >
> > **** Please could you reply directly to ian at ichilton.co.uk, as I am only
> > subscribed to the Samba list in digest mode, so will not get responses for a
> > while ****
> >
> > 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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