[Samba] Printing multiple copies

[Joel Hammer]

I don't know much about BSD printing.

It looks like your client is only sending one copy, since the single
copy and twelve copy print job are the same size.

When I send multiple copies with my print job, a pop up box on the screen
shows each job being sent. Do you see this?

One trick you might try is to remove the paper from your printer and
send a multiple copy print job. On my XP home box, the windows print
queue shows each individual print job or copy. If you used my print
command, you will see a nice file name, not the silly smbd name. So,
if I print two copies, two print jobs appear in the queue. (This is not
how it was in the old days when the postscript print file had the data
to print multiple copies.)

If you only see one print job, this would likely be a local configuration
problem on your XP home box.

Well, I have got to get to my day job. Good luck. I'll try to read my
email again in about 10 hours.

Joel



On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:53:43PM +0200, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> At 06.05 22/07/2003 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> >Well, I just tried an experiment.
> >
> >With XP Home, printing to a postscript printer on my linux box, the job is
> >sent as multiple, sequential  postscript files, each file being just one
> >copy. Ergo, samba thinks it has received multiple different print jobs,
> >not one job consisting of multiple copies. This is different from what I
> >found before, suggesting that new print drivers on the windows box (XP)
> >handle multiple copies differently.
> >
> >I get multiple copies printed out with XP Home sent to my linux server. No
> >problem. Do you see your windows client actually sending multiple copies
> >when you print?
> >
> >What is the printing system you are using?
> 
> Is the RH6.2 default "printing=bsd"
> 
> 
> >If not cups, you might modify your printing command in smb.conf to gather
> >some information. Here is what I have with my lprng print command.
> >
> >[ps]
> >         comment = Filtered for Z53
> >         path = /tmp
> >         read only = No
> >         create mask = 0700
> >         guest ok = yes
> >         hosts allow = 192.168.
> >         printable = Yes
> >         printing = lprng
> >         print command = echo %J %p %s  >>  /tmp/junkJ;\
> >                        a="`echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*- //"`" ;\
> >                        echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\
> >                        /usr/bin/lpr -Pps  -J"$a"  %s;\
> >                         rm %s
> >         lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Pps
> >         lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Pps %j
> >         lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold ps %j
> >         lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release ps %j
> >         share modes = No
> >         use client driver = yes
> >
> >That long print command captures the smb job name (%s) so I can see
> >what really is going on (whether one or multiple jobs get sent). And,
> >it captures the file name sent from windows (%J). The file name is
> >truncated to remove a Microsoft prefix sent with each filename.
> 
> Below you can see the log as you suggest. The two tmp.* spooling files are the
> same document, for the first I request 12 pages the second 1 page.
> 
> [root at server tmp]# ls -al
> totale 864
> drwxrwxrwt    4 root     root         8192 lug 22 12:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         4096 lug 22 09:28 ..
> drwxrwxrwt    2 xfs      xfs          4096 lug 22 09:29 .font-unix
> -rw-rw-rw-    1 roberto  tekno         352 lug 22 12:35 junkJ
> drwx------    2 root     root         4096 feb 28  2002 orbit-root
> srwxrwxrwx    1 postgres postgres        0 lug 22 09:29 .s.PGSQL.5432
> -rw-------    1 postgres postgres       24 lug 22 09:29 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> -rw-------    1 roberto  tekno      420993 lug 22 12:34 
> tmp.smbprn.000088.JDeufV
> -rw-------    1 roberto  tekno      420993 lug 22 12:35 
> tmp.smbprn.000089.uJ5DXA
> [root at server tmp]# cat junkJ
> Microsoft Word - Test.doc ps smbprn.000088.JDeufV
> This is truncated
> Microsoft Word - Test.doc ps smbprn.000089.uJ5DXA
> This is truncated
> [root at server tmp]#
> 
> >Joel
> 
> Roberto Fichera. 
>