[Samba] printing to network postscript printer gives ascii output of postscript job

[Tykodi, Paul]

Dear Andy,

The phenomenon or printing the PostScript source rather than the result of
the commands normally occurs when PostScript data is created (in your case
by the Windows 98 print driver) and then passed through a second PostScript
driver. Frequently the second driver will convert the ready for the printer
PostScript data into a format that creates the readable PostScript source
format at the printer.

My guess is that the Samba link to the print driver description on the
Solaris box includes some PostScript conversion capability at some step
which converted the format of the PostScript file coming from Win 98.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi
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LCI-Intermate US, Inc.

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>From: "Andy Crichton" <andy.crichton at abibuildingdata.com>
>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:58:00 -0000
>Subject: [Samba] printing to network postscript printer gives ascii output
of postscript >job
>
>solaris 7 with samba 2.0.7
>
>I already have several network printers on the box which work fine
(although
>I didn't set them up)
>I used the following commands to configure the printer under solaris
>lpadmin -p NAME_OF_PRINTER -o protocol=bsd,dest=IP_ADDR -v /dev/null -m
>netstandard -T PS _I postscript
>enable NAME_OF_PRINTER
>accept NAME_OF_PRINTER
>
>if I print using lp it works fine however I installed the postscript
printer
>drivers for the machine on a win98 box and printed through samba, the
output
>consisted of the postscript source in ascii. The only entry in the smb.conf
>mentioning printing is
>[printers]
>        comment = All Printers
>        path = /var/spool/samba
>        guest ok = Yes
>        printable = Yes
>        browseable = No
>
>Thanks for any ideas
>Andy Crichton
>
>p.s. the printer is a danka 4220 MF but I presume this isn't the cause.