On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 4:37 am, Larry Williams wrote: > Yippee! Yahoo (uh oh, is that a registered trademark?) > > I am now successful in printing from my Windows machines. > > What did I do? Upgraded. > > I used the Mandrake Update link (well, and gftp because I am tired of > downloading the same packages over and over because of network failures) > and installed updated versions of both samba and cups (and another 200+MB > of other goodies I'd downloaded). > > I then reconfigured cups, enabling raw file printing and setting the log > level to debug. I used the WWW admin tool to configure the printer, then > restarted cups. > > Next came samba. I used swat to configure it, using hints from the links > Anne and Derek provided. Then I restarted samba. > > Printing failed. This time, though it had something to do with samba not > having permission to access cups. On a hunch I changed the guest account > to lp for the Printers settings and restarted again. > > For grins, I did reboot the machine. I don't think I needed to, I think it > was just my Windows showing. After all, I always get out of my car and get > back in if it doesn't run right. Always works. ;) But during the boot I > did find that my parallel port is set to EPP. > > Speaking of Windows, I decided I should start fresh there, too. I removed > the printer definition, restarted Windows (it had been running for seconds > on end and was ready to die anyway), and installed the printer. I did as > Anne had suggested early on; install but do not print a test page, reboot, > then print. It was then I actually looked at all the configuration bits and > saw I was spooling a file in EMF format and not RAW. That may also have > been an issue, but I left it on EMF. > > And you know what? It did work. My only conclusion is that I had to > update samba and/or cups, then do a clean config of both. > > Thanks to all who offered suggestions. They were all helpful in the end. > Great news, Laryry. I'd guess it was the cups update - I seem to remember seeing somewhere that it supported many more printers. Anyway, thanks for all the info - I'm sure it will help someone else later - and ignore my last post with all the questions: they're no longer relevant.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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