[Samba] Samba ignores printer options when printing via CUPS
Dale Schroeder
dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com
Mon Feb 23 18:17:32 GMT 2009
David Meakins wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm having a few problems getting samba to pass along settings for
> various print options for all of our printers. Printers are set up
> using PPDs in CUPS, added to samba via the cupsaddsmb command and then
> added to windows clients via point and print. Unfortunately any print
> jobs sent from windows appear to completely ignore many of the CUPS
> settings such as duplex and print tray assignments. If I try printing
> from Linux to CUPS then all duplexing and print tray options are
> honoured by the print server. Anyone come across this before?
Yes, I have, but was assuming it was related to this Debian CUPS bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500732
because advanced options for Windows print drivers through Samba/CUPS
work perfectly.
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