Samba and printer question.
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 20:53:23 UTC 2009
I have not tried it on vista yet.
But I have a vista machine coming in about
a month :( I will have to wait til then to test it.
Hopefully, some people on this list will test it with
vista and report their findings sooner.
Cheers,
JD
Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> [hp deskjet 5600]
>> printer = raw
>> comment = HP DeskJet 5600
>> path = /var/spool/samba
>> browseable = yes
>> printer name = hpdj-5650w
>> # Set public = yes IF you want to allow user 'guest' to print
>> guest ok = no
>> writable = no
>> printable = yes
>> print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -Phpdj-5650w %s
>> lpq command = lpq -Phpdj-5650w
>> lprm command = lprm -Phpdj-5650w %j
>> lpstat command = /usr/bin/lpstat -t
>> #Required for XP?
>> ; use client driver = yes
>>
>> All worked as expected.
>>
> Did it also work on vista? Or just from linux or win xp machine.
> Another thing is that the printer is allready set in cups and samba
> should automaticly make working the printer share. It actually makes
> the share and I can see it from my windows machine after logging in to
> samba server, can also access files shared on normal fileshare like
> users home directory.
>
> Your solution is nice, but it goes past the cups which isn't very
> elegant even if it's working correctly. And one to try if the share
> still doesn't work in windows xp in addition to vista as there was
> some changes to smb-protocol in vista. I Have found some people
> complaining about same problem, but haven't find any solutions yet.
> Which was why I asked in the list if someone else would have
> encountered it and maybe found some other workaround than just using
> cups directly.
>
> Greetings,
> Veli-Pekka
>
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