[Samba] Old Access Printing Issues

[Jim Shanks]

Fred,

Here's a link to the documentation on how to set the printer devmode.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#prt-modeset

Jim

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> Fred,
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> Initialize the printer devmode as documented.  Or just try setting
> default devmode = yes in the printer's section of smb.conf.
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> cheers, jerry
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> Fred Nuffer wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> When a user on any of my client machines attempts to create a report in
>> MS Access he receives the following message:
>>    "The wizard is unable to create your report."
>>
>> I have found the following on the MS support site:
>>    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208553
>>
>> This also causes various other problems when working with Access
>> databases and forms that have already been created.
>>
>> That article states that you must have a default printer installed for
>> MS Access to work.  The problem is that my client machines all have a
>> default printer, but it is a NETWORK printer, served by the Samba
>> server.  I could add local printer and set it to default, but that kind
>> of work-around doesn't really solve my issue.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
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