Printing to a Samba Printer

[Alejandro Calbazana]

I'll give this a try.  Is there any way to log the activity of the printer 
to see where it bails out?  It sounds like its trying to parse/print then 
dies without notification.

Thanks,

Alejandro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward" <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Printing to a Samba Printer


>
>
> Alejandro Calbazana wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with printing to a Samba printer... I see my print jobs
>> spool but I can not get them to print!  I've been able to print directly 
>> to
>> the printer using lpr -P %p %s, but when I send the job over through 
>> Samba,
>> the file spools, windows notifies of printing, but nothing prints.
>>
>> I've checked access on the spool directory... The necessary permissions 
>> are
>> there.
>>
>> I am running:
>> Samba 2.2.7a
>> RH 9 2.4
>> HP Photosmart 7550 printer
>>
>> My smb.conf file:
>>
>>   [global]
>>           server string = Samba Running %v
>>           socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>>           keep alive = 30
>>           print command =  lpr -P %p %s
>>          lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq %p
>>          ;debug level = 4
>>          use client driver = yes
>>
>>     [printers]
>>          comment = Printers
>>          path = /tmp
>>          printable = yes
>>          browseable = no
>>          create mode = 0700
>>
>> [HPPS7550]
>>         comment = HP Photosmart 7550
>>          printer = HP_Photosmart_7550
>>          path = /tmp
>>          printable = yes
>>          browseable = no
>>          printable = yes
>>          use client driver = yes
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Smells like the known raw printing option problem.
>
> Try setting the printer up for raw printing.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
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