-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:42, Buchan Milne wrote: > > >>The script in packaging/Mandrake/print-pdf (or something like that) is >>IMHO a better solution. I can expand as to why if you are interested. >> > > Expansion would be appreciated thank you.
Firstly, the print command should be forked, so that the windows machines don't block while waiting for the process to finish. That is why in the default pdf share is like this: [pdf-generator] path = /var/tmp guest ok = No printable = Yes comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) #print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path win_path recipient IP doc_name & print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "%J" & You will see that we backgroud the script (&). We initially (about 2-3 years ago) had the majority of the script in the smb.conf file, but it was becoming unmanageable, so I wrote the script, which also allowed me to background the job, instead of manually setting all the windows machines not to spool the job (which is the other option to prevent them blocking). Our current print server is not the fastest machine, so it is an issue for us (ps2pdf on a 50-page document with images will take more than a few seconds). Lets just make sure we are comparing the same things. Here is the current print-pdf script: http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/packaging/Mandrake/samba-print-pdf.sh?rev=1.1.2.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=SAMBA_2_2 This is the page the other poster referenced: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Improvements: 1)Use of features such as mktemp to prevent clobbering of other files. This is not totally correct as I have used it, but I see no other way when wanting to be able to provide both Postscript and PDF files (which can be disabled in the script by changing KEEP_PS=1 to KEEP_PS=0). But the current method will at least prevent the script clobbering itself, even if two users submit jobs simultaneously. 2)Ensure the user will be able to get the file on a default installation, so stick it in their home directory 3)Optionally use the document name as the name of the PDF (if the 6th argument is provided). This can be broken by windows apps sending bad names, so take out the 6th ("%J") argument in the config file if it does not work for you. 4)Enforcing good permissions on all versions of the file to ensure that possibly confidential documents may be readable by others. Admins should adjust the PERMS variable to be suitable for their environment. 5)Notify the user where their PDF is located via a windows "popup". Other alternatives are to send an email notification, or to send the PDF as an attachment, but this would not then work out-the-box without requiring an MTA to be configured etc. 6)Use better options for PDFs. The current options basically produce Acrobat 4-style PDFs, adjust via the ps2pdf command used (ps2pdf14 is Acrobat 5). Pass some other options via OPTIONS. Defaults enable image compression. So, in the end, as long as user authentication is used and correclty setup (ie 'smbpasswd -a <user>'), this will work out-the-box, and windows users will get a popup notification, hopefully with the document name as the filename. Note that is has been a while since I looked at the script in detail, there still seem to be some things that could be cleaned up, but I am quite pressed for time these days. Patches welcome though! Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+XkQ7rJK6UGDSBKcRAlk4AJ9+EZa/cL8f1jg+cbMD1KYCHcm3swCgxTry S5rK90xkH6zuaPnu156R8cY= =1PbE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba