The Lexmark software on the client side insists on communicating with the printer.
Can't you give your subject line a more positive spin like:
How frustrating printing can be for a newbie admin
or Looks like I'll never understand printing
| OK, some progress. I managed to get access to the | printer but now I have the bi-directional
In my opinion, you can't really have problems with bi-
directional communications. Samba basically passes to
Apparently, if it can't, it assumes there is no printer or no network etc. According to my research the way around this is to use the Lexmark Z52 driver, which is supposedly 100% compatible, OR to disable bidrectional printing features from the client OR to go with straight postscript.
None of these has worked for me. There is something I am missing but I have no idea what it is. Probably something totally transparent to a guru and completely opaque to a newbie.
I would like to know where the uploaded drivers are kept so I can check and see if they are getting through.
cups ready print stuff (pre-processed by your clients)
only to be transferred to the printer. So your basic
setup for cups-controlled samba printers is raw queue.
Simplicity itself. Given an appropriate ppd file, cups will come to terms with exigencies of paper out, paper
jam, ink out, etc.
Samba provides a convenient way to store the necessary driver and support files so that they can be
automagically downloaded by the client, when it first
access a printer share. That makes it painless for users accustomed to click-n-print MS ways.
Now the basic mechanism of setting up the client
drivers' depot (rpcclient, the program underlying
cupsaddsmb) got broken since about 2.2.6a according to
some, but I only got real problems with 2.2.8a, when I
had to implement the fully compatible printer manipulation for my parish.
I haven't followed your thread but perhaps your problem and solution are described in the following document:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82
If they aren't, I'll look up your previous posting.
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