almost printing

[Joel Hammer]

No. You can use local drivers. That is what I do.
When I say dump the file, I mean print the job to a file. Then, on the
server, try cat file > /dev/lp0 or whatever. (I am not at home right now and
can't try this out, but it should work. Try echo Hello > /dev/lp0 first, as
root. This assumes that lp0 is your printer port.
Is your printer a postscript printer?
Can you hook up the windows box to the printer directly? How does printing
go then?
Joel


On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:28:56PM -0800, Gary Ferrer wrote:
> You're right, I don't think the switch over did it.  I'm not sure where I
> screwed things up.  Now in 2.0.7, I created the printer definition file and
> copied the relevant printer driver files onto the Samba server.  My
> understanding is that I don't do this anymore with 2.x.  So I removed all
> those files/directories, re-created a printer (lpadmin -p ...) then went
> into swat to make that printer a share.  On the Win98 client, I added the
> printer, whose printer drivers came from the Win98 CDROM.  Everything went
> smoothly so far.
> Are you saying I need to install printer drivers (as per the old 2.0.x
> PRINTER_DRIVER.txt file) on the Samba server?  When you suggest dumping a
> print file to a printer do you mean just dragging the file onto the printer
> icon?
> 
> Thank so far.
> Gary.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> To: "Gary Ferrer" <gary at ferrer.yi.org>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: December 9, 2001 6:46 AM
> Subject: Re: almost printing
> 
> 
> > You haven't gotten any responses yet, so I'll put in my two cents.
> > I do not know how switching to a new version of samba would affect your
> > printing output like this. Did you reinstall your print drivers?
> > This sounds like a problem with how you have configured your printer
> queues
> > and drivers, not a samba issue.
> > Have you tried just printing to a file from windows and dumping that print
> > file to your printer?
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:25:28PM -0800, Gary Ferrer wrote:
> > > Ok, I've managed to print to my HPDeskjet 694c attached to a Solaris 8
> box
> > > running samba 2.2.2 from Win98.  Problem is with the left margin, there
> are
> > > these little lines (garbage) running down the 1st column on the left
> side
> > > of the page.  Also, when I print a page from Word 97, the whole page
> doesn't
> > > print (about 95% of it) and starts a little too far down the page.
> Printing
> > > was perfect with Samba 2.0.7 so it did work before.
> > >
> > > Can someone help me?
> > >
> > > ps: I created the printer deskjet on solaris as follows:
> > >
> > > lpadmin -p deskjet -I Simple,ESC
> > > enable deskjet
> > > accept deskjet
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > # Samba config file created using SWAT
> > > # from gary (192.168.0.4)
> > > # Date: 2001/12/06 11:00:24
> > >
> > > # Samba config file created using SWAT
> > > # from gary (192.168.0.4)
> > > # Date: 2001/12/06 11:00:24
> > >
> > > # Global parameters
> > > [global]
> > >         workgroup = VANCOUVER
> > >         interfaces = iprb1
> > >         bind interfaces only = Yes
> > >         encrypt passwords = Yes
> > >         update encrypted = Yes
> > >         unix password sync = Yes
> > >         local master = No
> > >         printer admin = @gary
> > >         hosts allow = melody gary linuxbox sunbox
> > >         printing = bsd
> > >         print command = lp -o nobanner -c -d%p %s; rm %s
> > >
> > > [root]
> > >         comment = Root
> > >         path = /
> > >
> > > [Pron]
> > >         comment = Private
> > >         path = /var/pron
> > >
> > > [sun-printer]
> > >         path = /tmp
> > >         printer admin = gary
> > >         guest ok = Yes
> > >         printable = Yes
> > >         printer name = deskjet
> > >         printer driver file =
> > >
> > > Gary Ferrer
> > > gary at ferrer.yi.org
> > >
> > >
> >
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