[ale] Can not print to a samba shared printer

Tim Meanor timothy at meanor.net
Tue Aug 14 23:08:58 EDT 2007


In /etc/cups/mime.convs, is this line uncommented?:
application/octet-stream        application/vnd.cups-raw         
0       -

If it's not, try uncommenting it.

-Tim

On Aug 14, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I've just installed Office 2003 on a laptop and am trying to print  
> to my
> shared printer.  Nothing happened so I decided to view the log file.
> Here is what I see
>
> lpr: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'!
> lpr: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'!
>
>
> This is the first time I've tried to print to my Samsung ML-2010 from
> Windows XP since I've installed FC7.  Any ideas?
>
>
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