[Samba] printing to a remote win98 printer

[Joel Hammer]

Opps.
If you are on windows, to print a postscript file straight to your printer,
you have to do this:
copy /B File lpt0: or (some such). I hope I have the / in the right direction.
Joel

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:07:46AM CEST or thereabouts, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Why are you trying any drivers at all? Linux apps send postscript files. Try
> > a raw filter or a passthrough filter, if you have that choice.
> > Joel
> 
> I tried the raw filter and it still produces the same gibberish.
> 
> Andreas
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:26:51AM +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:46:27AM CEST or thereabouts, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > > This thing is a PostScript printer. What is your problem?
> > > 
> > > My problem is I can't get it to print anything else than pure ascii.
> > > For example when setting up the printer in cups and then printing a
> > > testpage I get page after page of postscript codes. I've tried the
> > > different 4029 drivers that cups has to offer, maybe I should try the
> > > generic postscript driver instead. I've also tried other printing
> > > systems such as LPRng with no luck.
> > > 
> > > Andreas
> 
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