[Samba] Printing multiple copies

Roberto Fichera kernel at tekno-soft.it
Tue Jul 22 14:17:33 GMT 2003


At 08.48 22/07/2003 -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
>On Tuesday 22 July 2003 06:05, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > 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've had this problem with both XP Pro and Windows 2000 as well, but under
>different circumstances. It was entirely related to CUPS when using the CUPS
>driver as the problem was still present when bypassing Samba by printing to
>CUPS using the IPP interface (a nice thing about that - one can easily
>remove, or prove, Samba as a source of the problem). Creating raw printers on
>the CUPS servers and using native Windows drivers cured the problem.

Right now I've tried a box with Win2K Professional SP4 + all the fixes 
around ...
same problem!!! The box is RH6.2 with Samba 2.0.7, smb.conf doesn't define any
printing directive so it's RH default BSD as shown by testparm.
Using Win9x no problem at all.

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