Samba and printer question.

[JD]

I have not tried it on vista yet.
But I have a vista machine coming in about
a month :(  I will have to wait til then to test it.
Hopefully, some people on this list will test it with
vista and report their findings sooner.

Cheers,

JD

Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> [hp deskjet 5600]
>>   printer = raw
>>   comment = HP DeskJet 5600
>>   path = /var/spool/samba
>>   browseable = yes
>>   printer name = hpdj-5650w
>> # Set public = yes IF you want to allow user 'guest' to print
>>   guest ok = no
>>   writable = no
>>   printable = yes
>>   print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -Phpdj-5650w %s
>>   lpq command = lpq -Phpdj-5650w
>>   lprm command = lprm -Phpdj-5650w %j
>>   lpstat command = /usr/bin/lpstat -t
>> #Required for XP?
>> ;   use client driver = yes
>>
>> All worked as expected.
>>
> Did it also work on vista? Or just from linux or win xp machine. 
> Another thing is that the printer is allready set in cups and samba 
> should automaticly make working the printer share. It actually makes 
> the share and I can see it from my windows machine after logging in to 
> samba server, can also access files shared on normal fileshare like 
> users home directory.
>
> Your solution is nice, but it goes past the cups which isn't very 
> elegant even if it's working correctly. And one to try if the share 
> still doesn't work in windows xp in addition to vista as there was 
> some changes to smb-protocol in vista. I Have found some people 
> complaining about same problem, but haven't find any solutions yet. 
> Which was why I asked in the list if someone else would have 
> encountered it and maybe found some other workaround than just using 
> cups directly.
>
> Greetings,
> Veli-Pekka
>