solved: Re: [Samba] Letter instead of A4 with driver installed via Samba's Point'n'Print

[Kay Obermueller]

Chris Smith schrieb:


>>On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:51, you wrote:
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>>>>Yes, and it printed already correctly as a remote printer from Linux and
>>>>OS X. Page Size is set to A4.
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>>Hmmm...cups updates the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/ when the printer options are set 
>>ans I'm reasonably sure, but not certain, that it uses that ppd as a base 
>>when doing cupsaddsmb. Maybe there's an old version 
>>in /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 or wherever your distro puts it.
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>>Regardless you should be able to set the defaults via Windows by drilling down 
>>the printers folder on the server, right click on printer, choose properties, 
>>then from the Advanced tab select the box 'Printing Defaults...' and 
>>continue.
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>>Chris
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After I repeated cupsaddsmb I must have missed the correct menu in
Windows to set the paper size. Since I set it in any menu I could find
and tested printing with a brand new untouched Windows client everthing
is fine and really works without any user intervention! Thank you.

Kay