[ale] sharing printer

[Keith Hopkins]

Elanchezhian Sivanandam wrote:
> yeah,
> 
>   It is a  HP LaserJet 1100 (MS)
>   and offcourse it uses a winbloze driver

Here is my guess as to what the problem is.

   You have the Winbloze server as you print server,
	It has a print driver for Winbloze,
	It expects data in a certain format (Windows Meta Data)
	It will take that data and re-format it according to the driver specs.

   You have a Linux box as your client,
	It is using a driver for the printer or just sending a RAW data flow.  Either way, it is not creating Windows Meta Data.
	ergo, Linux is sending data to the Winbloze server in the wrong format.

   Solution:
1)	Create a new Winbloze print queue for raw data as a pass though.  It will not do any formatting of the data, but will just ask as a FIFO pipe and/or buffer for the print job.
or
2)	Use a Linux driver that creates Windows Meta Data that the Winbloze server can understand and re-format.

>   i can't understand  ur next question
>   "What driver are you defining was used when creating the print job?"

Are you using a print driver on the Linux side? or are you sending raw data (or postscript) to the windows server?

>   but it print a line like this
>   -----------------------------------------
>  
> elan
> 
> Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 
>> Elanchezhian Sivanandam wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>       i am able to access the printer in windows 2000 server using 
>>> smbclient but unable to print a page.
>>>       when a print command is given, it prints a single junk  line.
>>>       what to do?
>>
>>
>>
>> You start by giving us some more details.  What kind of printer is 
>> it?  Postscript? PCL? ESC/2? Inkjet? Laserjet?
>> Is the print server set up for a RAW stream? or is it using a Winbloze 
>> driver?
>> What driver are you defining was used when creating the print job?
>> What kind of junk gets printed?
>>
> 


-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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