samba vs CUPS printing issue

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Try this in smb.conf printer section if lp0 is your printer


print command = lpr  -P /dev/lp0 -o raw %s ; rm %s -r

----- Original Message -----
From: fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:06:46 -0400
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: samba vs CUPS printing issue

> Guys:
> 
> This is OT, forgive me, I'm kinda stuck here.
> 
> Running one of the free RHEL 3.0 clones (Tao, in this case) and am
> having trouble figuring out how to print to a postscript printer (attached
> to the linux box) which is shared via samba. 
> 
> I've got it working from a WinXP system, but cannot get it working from
> a Win98 box.
> 
> The Samba docs tell you (in painful detail) how to do it for Win NT/2K/XP,
> but not for win9x, and the same procedures do not work.
> 
> Anybody done it, or know where there's docs for it?
> 
> (samba 3.0.2, and cups 1.1.17)
> 
> From the '98 box, I can set up the printer as if it were any other
> ole printer, point it to the shared printer on the linux box (which
> is browseable), install the MFG's printer driver, send it a test page. 
> Windows thinks everything is peachy, the busy light on the printer blinks
> for a litle while, but nothing prints.
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