samba printing format-not-supported

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Fri Jun 4 03:39:49 UTC 2004



David L wrote:

> I was able to print from a w2k machine to my FC2-test1 printer via 
> samba.  I installed (new installation, not an upgrade) FC2 and now I get 
> the following error trying to print from w2k:
> 
> Unable to print file to deskjet840c - 
> client-error-document-format-not-supported
> 
> The smb.conf file is identical to the one that worked, so I assume it's 
> a printer setup problem, but I don't remember doing anything special in 
> test1 to get the printer working with samba.  Any ideas of what's wrong?
> 
> Thanks:     David
> 
> 
> PS - Sorry if this is a repeat... I didn't see my earlier message appear 
> on the list.

If you're using CUPS (you didn't specify), then you may have to enable 
the RAW printing?

Regards,
Ed.







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