[Samba] Does samba modify print queues?

[jax at nwmt.us]

Oddly enough I wrote back once to this list, but it's not yet shown up. Now
I'm here to say I was wrong, and that Jerry is right...
Setting the print driver on the windows XP client side to NT EMF enables
perfect prints.
thanks for the patient assistance!  you rock.

On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:10:37 -0500, "Gerald (Jerry) Carter"
<jerry at samba.org> wrote:
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> Jax,
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>> Dang... apparently I was not specific enough.  I'm not using RAW drivers
> on
>> the windows clients - ONLY in cups. My intention is for the users to
> change
>> nothing and to just have the samba/cups combo do routing.  It would seem
>> easy, however everyone I've tried to talk with has given some
> linux-centric
>> answer or whatever.  Okay, well, guess I'll just do this without samba
> as
>> it's the culprit.  without samba, all works fine, with samba things go
>> wrong.  I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that it must be the
>> windows client.  Poor writing on my part I must presume.  Well thanks
> for
>> the effort.
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> Understand there are two different ways to generate print jobs on Windows
> clients.  Raw (client side rebdered) and EMF which is basically
> encapsulated GDI calls (server side rendered).  When using EMF it is
> possible that certain Windows print drivers do not pass the job through
> the local Win32 print processor for that driver and hence generate
> different output.  That is what I was referring to when I said RAW vs.
> EMF printing.  Has nothing to do with cups.
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> cheers, jerry
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