[Samba] Re: Printing

Jeff Umbach jeff at theserverpos.com
Wed Mar 17 23:33:18 GMT 2004


Is this a raw print queue?  If so then you may need to put this line in the
printers share definitions.

use client driver = yes

I tend to have problems if i don't have that line included.

"Michael S. Dunsavage" <mikesd at frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:200403161536.54336.mikesd at frontiernet.net...
>
> I have samba running on RH 9 as a PDC.
>
>
> I want to print from teh windows box to the Linux machine...
>
>
> excerpt from smb.conf:
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/cups/
>         browseable = yes
>         public = yes
>         printable = yes
>         writeable = yes
>
>
> excerpt from printcap:
>
> # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> # /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
> # will be lost.
> printer:
> lp0:
>
>
> So, when I print it does put something in /var/spool/cups
>
> but how do I get it to print?
>
> When I print locally to the pritner it puts a file in /var/spool/cups so I
> assume that's the proper directory?
>
>
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> Michael S. Dunsavage
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