Samba and printing ports

[Josep Llaurado]

Hi Gerald,

Thanx for the answer,

I try to download the driver from the samba box, and the problem seems
to be the samba server can't understand the preferences and device
commands from the Win2K clients.

I have tryied to install as local printer enabling the "use client
driver" from smb.conf and  runs well, but the perfect beaviour will be
to save this configuration into the samba server (I have a lot of
clients using this printers and I'll have to add manually the trays into
each client). 

Do you know a CVS snapshot will solve the problem?

TIA.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
Enviado el: miércoles, 23 de enero de 2002 16:02
Para: Josep Llaurado
CC: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
Asunto: Re: Samba and printing ports


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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