Cups permission problems
Gerry Doris
gdoris at rogers.com
Wed Dec 17 00:33:43 UTC 2003
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Andy Green wrote:
> Examine the cups and samba logs. I had the same problem, the final part of
> the solution was that something needed setting up to accept raw type data
> from the Windows machine.
>
> Here is my working /etc/smb.conf fragment for the printer
>
> [E740]
> comment = Linux Epson 740
> path = /var/spool/lp
> read only = No
> guest ok = Yes
> printable = Yes
> printing = cups
> print command = cupsdoprint -P'%p' -oraw %s
> lpq command = lpq.cups -P'%p'
> lprm command = lprm.cups -P'%p' %j
> printer name = E740
> use client driver = Yes
>
> Permissions on the spool path at the server
>
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 8 13:17 /var/spool/lp
>
> I also added user nobody to the lp group.
>
> I hope this partial set of hints is some kind of help!
>
> - -Andy
Thanks for the hint. I checked my cups logs and there were complaints
about unsupported raw data. I added the one line below to smb.conf and
all is well.
print command = cupsdoprint -P'%p' -oraw %s
--
Gerry
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
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