printing problem

[Herb Lewis]

"Martin A. Marques" wrote:
> 
> hello:
>         This is th situation: 1 Linux samba server and 1 Windows NT server
> both with printers. At the moment, the printer conected to the samba server
> has no ink, so everything goes to the NT server.
>         Problem: When ever I send something to print from the linux PC to the
> NT server, first it prints a page with 1 black diamond on the left top of the
> page. At this point I have a pill of pages useless because of this. Is there
> any solution?
> 
> I using samba 2.0.5a-1
> 
> TIA...... :-)
> 

It looks like your "printer drivers" and not quite compatible. Change 
the samba print command to not remove the file after sending it to the
NT server. On NT print a test to a file and compare the beginning to
see what is added to the samba version. You can then easily create
a perl or sed script to strip this before sending the print job.

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