Samba and printing ports

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Josep Llaurado wrote:

> I have two print servers, and I have serious problems trying to set the
> default preferences and the device cofiguration (Number of trays,
> etc...).
> Otherwise, I have one printer in one of these print servers that have
> another configuration (I can't remember how could I do it), and the
> preferences and device config runs well and I can modify it.
>
> The good config shows:
>
> 	Ports: \\printserver\printer, LAN Manager printing port
> 	Advanced: Print processor -> Lexmark PCL Print Processor
>
> The bad config shows:
>
> 	Ports: samba
> 	Advanced: Print processor -> Winprint
>
> The problem here is that winprint processor can't understand the lexmark
> preferences and config, but I don't know how can I create a new print
> processor or change the port, 'cos are both disableds.

Are you trying to download drivers from the Samba box?  If not,
look at "use client driver" and "disable spoolss" in smb.conf(5).
You may need to install the printer as a local printer (this is what
happened under Samba 2.0).







chau, jerry
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