[Samba] Printing samba, cups and legacy 16 bit applications

[ciro samba]

ridiculously simple, what confounded me was that vb3 was able to print to
macromedia flash paper, several other network printers shared under windows
xp and win98 and pdf printers.
maybe something special with the PS driver.
many tks
Ciro

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Jim Shanks <jim at shanks.cc> wrote:

> > hello everybody,
> > I have come to a dead end.
> > I have successfully configured cups and samba to print from windows with
> > automated drivers download.
> > It works perfectly, but for one little problem, most of the printing
> here
> > in
> > my company are reports printed by the ERP software, which has been
> > developed
> > by ouserlves some 12 years ago in (oohh sucks) Visual basic 3.
> >
> > The problem is:
> > Every single application prints successfully except apps developed in
> Vb3.
> > I have developed a wonderful test app with amazing 3 lines of code.
> >
> > event form load
> > cmdialog1.action=5 'opens windows common dialog for choosing printer
> > printer.print time 'prints time in the upper left corner of the page
> > printer.enddoc 'finishes print job
> > end
> >
> > the same app built with vb6 prints ok, built with vb3 does not print,
> and
> > what's worse, does not generate any kind of error, the job simply
> > disapears.
> > worse than that. if i check the "print to file" option of the ps driver,
> > save the file with whatever name, copy it to my cups/samba server and
> > print
> > it with lpr, it prints, either from vb3 or vb6.
> >
> > i believe the problem is with the 8.3 filename restriction of vb3 and
> the
> > smbprn.XXXXXX filename of samba spool directory although i`m not certain
> > of
> > who really creates this file, the app, the windows driver or samba
> itself.
> >
> > i have pcap files of the network from the moment i click the ok button
> in
> > the printing dialog, But i could not make any sense out of them.
> >
> > if someone could be of any help!
> >
> > tks a lot
> >
> > Ciro Souza
> >
> >
>
> Ciro,
>
> It's been quite a while since I had to do this, but if I remember right,
> with Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients running most 16 bit applications,
> you'll have to "capture" a local LPT port to your network printer in order
> to get the application to print.
>
> Run the following at the DOS prompt at the client workstation:
>
> net use LPT2:  \\servername\shared-printer-name
>
> Then from the 16-bit application, print to LPT2
>
> Jim
>