SAMBA -> printer driver and windows forms

[christoph.beyer at desy.de]

hi,

that's exactly what I did but on the clients the default is overwritten,
probably because there is no forms entry for 'A4' in the local
registry....

regards
		~christoph



On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Jon Gerdes wrote:

> If you use Samba to send out the printer driver you can setup the defaults by connecting as a printer admin (or admin user).  Right click on the printer and select document defaults (or whatever it is) and set it up for A4.  Then, the clients will also be re-configured.
>
> Cheers
> Jon Gerdes
>
> >>> <christoph.beyer at desy.de> 08/01/2002 10:21:28 >>>
> hi,
>
> I'm using SAMBA 2.2.0 and LPRng 3.8.3 on SOLARIS 2.7 to offer printservice
> for ~2.300 NT 4.0 clients. Everything works fine, I use the feature to
> preconfigure the NT drivers on the printserver which makes my NT clients
> think they talk to a NT server :-)
>
> The most annoying problem is that the SAMBA server doesn't know the paper
> size A4 (which is the default format in europe). Though the driver comes
> with 'A4' as default format from the server the NT clients change the
> entry to 'A4 small' or 'letter' I think because they don't find the 'A4
> forms' entry in the registry.
>
> Using the server properties card from a NT box I can add forms to the
> server but not a 'A4' called form, because it exists already and I don't
> have the right to replace or change it (I have admin rights on the NT
> machine). To me it looks like if I see a mixture in the dialogue between the forms on the SAMBA server and lokal
> forms that come probably with NT.
>
> Is there any way to get rid of this problem, like a different way to add a
> forms entry to the SAMBA server? Maybe I'm on a completely wrong way and
> the problem can be solved somewhere else (?)
>
>
> Another thing that happens quite often: Deleting a printjob in the
> NT queue window results from time to time in a renaming of the job and the
> message 'command didn't succeed' the job in the NT queue window in that
> case gets renamed from its original name e.g. 'my_document' to the name
> of the SAMBA tmp file e.g. 'SMBPRN.123'. Deleting this job again is then
> successful, I played around a bit but all I can say is that the lprm
> command doesn't get executed on the first try, is it a name mapping
> problem (?):
>
>         print command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/lpr -r -Fl -m%m -U%U -P%p %s
>         lpq command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/samba/%u/lpq -P%p
>         lprm command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/lprm -U%U -P%p %j
>
> thank you for any hint and the great improvements in printing integration
> through SAMBA in the 2.2.0 release
>
> 	~christoph
>
>