[Samba] RE: Clarifying CUPS Printing

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Ulrich Kohlhase wrote on Samba-digest:

> Message: 8 From: Ulrich.Kohlhase at t-online.de (Ulrich Kohlhase) 
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org> 
> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 03:34:18 +0100 
> Subject: [Samba] RE: Clarifying CUPS Printing
> 
>> The docs state when using CUPS the relevent lines of SMB.CONF 
>> should look like this:
>> 
>> printing=cups
>> printcap=cups
>> 
>> And that any manual printing command are ignored.  However, if we set
>> printcap = cups nothing happens and we cannot see any printers.
>> 
>> What we do have is the following:
>> 
>> printer admin = @DomainAdmins,root
>> load printers = yes
>> printing = cups
>> printcap= /etc/printcap
>> print command = lpr.cups -r -P%p -o raw %s
>> lpq command = lpstat -o %p
>> lprm command = cancel.cups %p-%j
>> 
>> See any problems with this?
> 
> 
> Cups printcap is installed in "/etc" by default. We use the following
> settings for quite a while now:
> 
> printer admin = @root
> print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -cups -P %p %s
> printing = cups
> load printers = Yes 
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p 
> lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j 
> lppause command = /usr/bin/lp -i %p-%j -H hold
> lpresume command = /usr/bin/lp -i %p-%j -H resume
> queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p
> queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p
> 
> Samba spool files get deleted just fine as requested by the "-r" switch
> ... (somebody mentioned spool files where left after jobs completed)

Ulrich,

it would help a lot if you gave the version numbers of CUPS and Samba.
Also, which operating system are you using? Is your Samba linked against
the libcups?

Cheers,
Kurt