[Samba] need help setting up a printer

[Simon Jester]

I think any decent Postscript Printer will work - I always use the Apple
Color LaserWriter.

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mahoney, Tom" <tom.mahoney at riaco.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: [Samba] need help setting up a printer


> I'm trying to setup a print share with samba-2.2.4 that 9x and 2k clients
> should be able to print to.
> Below is my current setup listing only printer related options.
> My first concern right now is that I have cups running with the
pdfdistiller
> script to format print jobs into pdf documents.
> I'm not using a real printer for this.
> I need samba to display the cups printer called PDF_Printer so that I can
> print to it from windows.
> Now the only driver with cups so far that I've been able to get to create
a
> non corrupt pdf was the raw driver aside from thta I had tried some hp
> drivers but don't really have a clue what I SHOULD use as a driver with
> pdfdistiller. Anyway raw works for cups and I can use the cups web
interface
> to print a test page and then view that pdf with xpdf or acroread. From
this
> point assuming that I had samba displaying the printer I need to know what
> print driver I would choose.
> I also would rather at this time use a local print driver as imprints and
> adding from 2k are way over my head.
> I'm still trying to understand the new [print$] share.
> Oh and I'd prefer to not to have to create the "print" share PDF_Printer
> below but so far it's the only way to get a printer to display from nework
> neighborhood. [print$] doesn't create a list automatically as near as I
can
> tell and 2k doesn't use [printer].
> Can anyone help or point out any obvious flaws in my setup? Thanks in
> advance to anyone who can help. =)
>
> [global]
>         total print jobs = 0
>         load printers = Yes
>         printcap name = cups
>         disable spoolss = No
>         enumports command =
>         addprinter command =
>         deleteprinter command =
>         show add printer wizard = Yes
>         printer admin = root, @lp
>         min print space = 0
>         max print jobs = 1000
>         printable = No
>         postscript = No
>         printing = cups
> #       print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
>         print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r
> #       lpq command = lpq -P%p
>         lpq command = lpstat -o %p
> #       lprm command = lprm -P%p %j
>         lprm command = cancel %p-%j
>         lppause command =
>         lpresume command =
>         queuepause command =
>         queueresume command =
>         printer name =
>         use client driver = No
> #       printer driver =
> #       printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def
> #       printer driver location =
>
> #[printer$]
> #       comment = All Printers
> #       path = /var/spool/samba
> #       browseable = No
> #       guest ok = No
> #       writeable = No
> #       printable = Yes
> #       create mode = 0700
>
> #[print$]
> #       comment = Printer Drivers
> #       path = /etc/samba/drivers
> #       browseable = Yes
> #       guest ok = Yes
> #       read only = Yes
> #       write list = root
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         guest ok = Yes
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>         writeable = Yes
>         create mode = 0700
>
> #[print$]
> #       comment = Printer Drivers
> #       path = /etc/samba/drivers
> #       write list = root, @lp
>
> [PDF_Printer]
>         comment =
>         path = /var/spool/samba
> #       printer driver =
>         printing = cups
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = Yes
>         public = Yes
>
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