Samba Printing to Win98

[Duane Penzien]

I too am struggling to make a setup similar to yours work.  I have a Epson Stylus
777 printer on the W98se box.  I am using ghostscript's stp driver with options as
part of a magicfilter to process the dayta (via LPRng) and a simple replacement
for smbprint to send the output to the w98 printer, since I am not using a
password on this share.  If I recall correctly, the smbprint script needs editing
and/or a file somewhere with the passwords and sharename that you want to use.  My
simple version just has

#!/bin/bash
smbpath="/usr/local/samba/bin"
$smbpath/smbclient //daystar/epson2 -c 'printmode graphics; print -; exit'

in it.

As far as setup for the Epson goes, don't plan on sending much text stuff to it if
it's like mine - the
777 only has enough smarts to print 10cpi x 6 lpi text to it; anything else needs
to be rendered for it's graphic mode to print.  I also found the print driver that
shipped with it would loose stuff when the port setting is 'bidirectional' when
printing to it from Samba (and the brain-dead driver resets itself to
bidirectional mode every time the computer is rebooted regardless of what you
selected yourself!)  The only workaround I have found so far is to install the
Epson Esc/P2 driver that comes with W98se alongside the driver from Epson and
share it for the printing from Samba - It has a unidirectional mode that works.

I hope some of this helps.

Does anyone out there have a way for Samba to reliably communicate with a printer
in bidirectional mode on a Win98 box?

rory o'connor wrote:

> I am trying to allow printing from my linux box to my win98 box, to which my
> epson stylus printer is attached.  It's just not happening...something tells me
> I'm flirting with a world of pain.
>
> I *can* print a file by going:
>
> smbclient //rory/EPSON
> translate
> print /etc/group
>
> but I cannot print from applications, nor can i use smbprint.  I tried going:
>
> cat /etc/passwd | sh -x smbprint
>
> but this is the output I get:
>
> + logfile=/dev/null
> + eval acct_file=${0}
> ++ acct_file=smbprint
> ++ dirname smbprint
> + spool_dir=.
> + config_file=./.config
> ++ cat ./.config
> cat: ./.config: No such file or directory
> + eval
> + echo server , service
> + /usr/bin/smbclient /// -U -N -P
> + echo print -
> + cat
>
> doesn't look right.  if anyone's interested in helping, have a look at my
> printcap file:
>
> epson|epson stylus photo 1200:\
>         :lp=/dev/null:\
>         :br#57600:\
>         :rm=:\
>         :rp=:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:\
>         :if=/etc/webmin/lpadmin/drivers/epson.smb:
>
> thanks!
>
> rory
>
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