[ale] Shared Samba printer, SuSE 9.0

BruceG griffisb at bellsouth.net
Sun Apr 18 17:03:46 EDT 2004


On Sunday 18 April 2004 10:11, Jason Day wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:20:06AM -0400, BruceG wrote:
> > Jason - in /etc/cups/mime.type - do you have the
> > #application/msword		doc string(0,<D0CF11E0A1B11AE1>)
> > line uncommented? Some of my Samba print jobs will be from MSWord on a
> > Samba client. Or is this if you are running MSWord on the Samba server
> > itself?
>
> Yes, that line is uncommented.  Note that, as Dow mentioned, when you
> install the printer in cups you must use the raw printer driver.  This
> means that cups won't do any processing on the print data at all, it
> will just pass it directly to the printer.  This also means that you
> have to install the real printer driver on your windows clients.
>
> In my case, my desktop doubles as the print server.  So I have two
> drivers (and two queues) installed for the same printer: the raw driver,
> for the windows clients, and the foomatic printer driver for my printer,
> to print from my desktop.

Thanks Jason. I made the changes to my /etc/cups/mime.types and /etc/cups/
mime.conf - and uncommented the msword line as well. I only made one print 
queue, but it worked from both my Desktop (SuSE 9.0 running Samba server) and 
from a WinXP laptop running windows network client. Don't know why the one 
queue worked, but I do know that the changes you recommended got printing 
from my Win client working. Thanks!



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