Hello folks, Regarding the story below, has there ever been done some effort to acomplish this? We use several of these so called "windows print stations" at work, but whatever I have tried with samba, cups, etc, I can't get it to work. Perhaps this is an issue that has allready been solved in the past, but I couldn't find anything in this direction.
Any help would be appreciated. Eddie. ----------------------- From: "Wim Verhoogt" Subject: Printing on printers connected to Intel InBusiness print stations Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:44:39 +0200 L.S., I've been struggling to print with Intel InBusiness print stations. These stations are labeled as "for use with Windows only" by Intel. I found out that they emulate a Windows machine exporting two printer shares, one for each connector. The NetBIOS name of the stations is the Device ID, and the shares are //device_id/Printer1 and //device_id/Printer2 I tried to print to these shares with smbclient's print command, but received various errors. Some reverse-engineering (tcpdump is your friend :-) ) showed that you have to specify a remote filename of DEV\LPT1 (or DEV\LPT2 for the 2nd share - haven't tested that), and that SMB_COM_WRITE (0x0B) must be used to write to the share. Smbclient uses WRITE_COM_ANDX (0x2F). This doesn't return an error, but garbles the print data. I've patched smbclient to support this. I implemented a new option (-H) which will direct smbclient to write using SMB_COM_WRITE. The put command can now be used to print to the InBusiness stations. The print command won't work because it doesn't support specifying a remote filename.With this hack and a CUPS backend script, my server now exports 3 printers, connected to these stations, and I'm happy :-) I was wondering if this new feature of smbclient can be incorporated in the official SAMBA distribution, so that I don't need to patch smbclient for each new release. I doubt that the new -H option is the best way to do that, it just happened to be a quick and easy way to solve my problem. The patch used was: --- client.c Fri Jul 6 04:01:20 2001 +++ /home/wim/cvs/samba/source/client/client.c Mon Jul 9 16:33:41 2001 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ BOOL prompt = True; int printmode = 1; +BOOL inBusiness_hack = False; static BOOL recurse = False; BOOL lowercase = False; @@ -1031,8 +1032,10 @@ DEBUG(0,("Error reading local file: %s\n", strerror(errno) )); break; } - - ret = cli_write(cli, fnum, 0, buf, nread, n); + if (inBusiness_hack) + ret = cli_smbwrite(cli, fnum, buf, nread, n); + else + ret = cli_write(cli, fnum, 0, buf, nread, n); if (n != ret) { DEBUG(0,("Error writing file: %s\n", cli_errstr(cli))); @@ -2415,7 +2418,7 @@ } while ((opt = - getopt(argc, argv,"s:O:R:M:i:Nn:d:Pp:l:hI:EU:L:t:m:W:T:D:c:b:A:")) != EOF) { + getopt(argc, argv,"s:O:R:M:i:Nn:d:Pp:l:hI:EU:L:t:m:W:T:D:c:b:A:H")) != EOF) { switch (opt) { case 's': pstrcpy(servicesf, optarg); @@ -2571,6 +2574,9 @@ break; case 'b': io_bufsize = MAX(1, atoi(optarg)); + break; + case 'H': + inBusiness_hack = True; break; default: usage(pname); --__--__--