[Samba] What I must configure to use LPRng with Samba

[Fernando Giorgetti]

But my printers is not physically connected to my server.
I want that my samba share the printers thats's physically connected to the windows box (clients) and that the LPRng manage the spool.

Fernando.

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:13:43 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> Do you know what this printcap entry is saying?
> Is says to send the print job to samba. You don't want to do this on your
> server. Your server is going to talk to the printer attached to itself
> and it won't use samba for that.
> 
> > epson:cm=Dummy Printcap Entry:
> >       :lp=/dev/null
> >       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
> >       :sh:if=/usr/bin/smbprint
> 
> The following is the sort of print cap entry you need:
> 
> ps|z53:\
>         sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/z53:mx#0:\
>         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>         :if=/usr/local/lexmark/z53/z53.sh
>         :sh:              
> 
> This uses the filter pointed to by the if parameter to convert print jobs to
> a format usable by my z53 printer. Note lp points to the device which has
> the printer physically attached to the server.
> 
> Joel