[Samba] HP Deskjet drivers, Samba and Cups

[Sandro Hannemann]

I had similar problems using HP Deskjet 970CXi....

I also tried to setup a printing server using Samba 2.2.7a and Cups 1.1.18.
From linux clients I had no problems using the foomatic driver.
In order to be able to access the printer from a W2K-client I added to 
smb.conf: 

use client driver = yes

( that driver download thing, seamed to be kind of overkill for one Windows 
client....)
I did that raw-printer setup thing under cups, and got the same result:
something like "format-not-supported" appeared in the "log.smbd"
Then I tried to setup the printing command by adding

print command = lpr -P %p %s -oraw -s

to the smb.conf.
Still the same....
Then I read the manualpages of smb.conf
there it is written, that using printcap = cups disables any manually set 
printing commands, so I set

printing = BSD
printcap file = /etc/samba/printcap

in the smb.conf,
while /etc/samba/printcap
contains the manually edited line

hp|HP DeskJet 970CXi via Samba

finally the cups-system has now the printer queue hp using that foomatic 
driver (which is useful for all linux clients). The printing option is set to 
BSD, but still it prints to the hp-queue of cups, so it's finally working 
properly, but its not that straight forward, as the guys suggest in the 
documentation, I'd say.

Sandro