[Samba] Printer Issue with Access XP

[Joe Cipale]

Cyrille,

Personally.. I would say scrap Samba printing as a printing solution between linux/unix and XP and install a dedicated print server. HP, Linksys and D-Link all make very good, reliable solutions that are very easy to setup and configure.

This will save you a great deal of time, energy and headaches. Just my opinion, mind you.

Joe Cipale

Cyrille Bollu wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having an issue with printing on a samba shared printer from Access XP 
> 2002.
> 
> This issue has already been reported twice on this list but never 
> answered.
> 
> We are experiencing a strange problem using Microsoft Access XP 2002 to 
> create a report when the default printer is set to a network Samba 
> Printer.
> 
> We have already tried setting 'default devmode = yes' on the printer 
> within smb.conf, but without luck.
> 
> We have found that we can set the default printer on the workstation to a 
> locally stored printer definition and then start the Access Report 
> Designer, and print to the Samba printer by changing the printer at the 
> time of print, but this is a rather long way around.
> 
> Does anybody went further in the resolution of this problem?
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Cyrille
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