Great! The Windows printer drivers (on the client) seem to interfere with the Linux printer driver, so setting up the raw queue is the way to go for sharing printers with Windows. I haven't tried the other-way-round though. I wonder if it would work to *not* install the printer driver on Windows, and just use the Linux one... That would make the setup easier. I'll have to try that sometime when I've got nothing better to do.

And just so no one thinks that I figured this out myself, I didn't. Some generous soul posted it to a Web site that I found a few months ago (which I can't find now).

David Miller wrote:

I didn't realize there was a selection for raw queue instead of selecting your printer. I now have two entries for my C80 one called C80 and the othere called C80_Raw. The windows machines can print to the C80_Raw just fime.

Thanks

David Miller

Mitch Wiedemann wrote:

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On my small home network, I set up print sharing using the "K-menu > System Settings > Printing" app (in KDE). I install my Lexmark Z51 with the Z51 driver for use on my Linux workstation, but as a "raw printer queue" for sharing with the Windows boxen.

Although I do have Samba installed and working for file/dir shares, I don't really have any idea what underlying program (samba, cups, etc.) the "Printing" app. configures, but it works for me, so I thought I'd share.

Good luck.

Sorry, I missed that line when I cut and pasted the config file. It is there

Robert Marcano wrote:

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:54, David Miller wrote:

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Hello

I recently "upgraded" from RedHat 9 to Fedora. I have always used lprng. I was very disapointed to find that it was removed.

I have tried to share the printers that I have on my linux box. I have 4 windows machines that use my printers. I have an Hp dj600 and an Epson C80 on the linux box. I have never had any problems shareing them with lprng and samba.

After installing Fedora I learned that I had to use CUPS. I could make my printers work on the linux machine but the windows machines could not print. They would show up in windows explorier but not in the list when you would add a network printer. Nothing I tried seamed to work until I ran across a posting via a web search that indicated a problem in samba 3.0 and it worked with an earlier version of samba. I uninstalled samba and downloaded the samba rpms for samba-2.2.7-5.8.0. I think the samba files used in RedHat 8.0.

Now my HP works fine. On the windows machines, when you say add printer and select network and browse you see both printers and installs for both seam to work. The Epson still won't print. In printer configuration both printers are shared. Both work on the linux box.

Try adding the printing variable to the global section:

printing = cups

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From the smb.conf man page

"printing (S) This parameters controls how printer status information is interpreted on your system. It also affects the default values for the print command, lpq command, lppause command, lpresume command, and lprm command if specified in the [global] section."

you need to use both "printcap" and "printing"

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Samba Config is as follows: workgroup = HOME server string = Samba Server printcap name = cups load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 security = user encrypt passwords = no

obey pam restrictions = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 remote browse sync = 192.168.0.1/25 os level = 33 preferred master = yes wins support = yes dns proxy = no

[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775

[printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes use client driver = yes

[windata] path = /var/data/win95 guest ok = yes writeable = yes printable = no write list = david, cheryl, laniece, cathy, mark create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775

Cups mime.convs has the following line uncommented: application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

mime.types has the following line uncommented: application/octet-stream

cups error log still indicates the following when I try to print to the C80; E [02/Feb/2004:12:13:22 -0600] print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! I [02/Feb/2004:12:13:22 -0600] Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled?

No errors printing to the HP.

There is no entry that shows up in the print queue.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

David Miller