At 1:02 PM -0400 5/10/00, Ted Buswell wrote:
>Right now, you could write a shell script to create all of
>the various permutations of printer shares, each one with
>an appropriate "print command" directive in your smb.conf.
We have >200 printers in printcap, and each of those printers
has at least two (and usually four or more) names. To add two
options (-h and -m), would mean more than 4*5*200 names. Ick...
>Or alternatively, hack the appropriate bits in Samba so that
>you can have your clients connect to \\s\p\options to get lpr
>printer 'p' off of server 'p', with given options.
>For example: \\server\printer\noheader,email
>would result in Samba invoking "lpr -Pprinter -h -m".
Initially this seemed like the wrong idea, but the more I think
about it the more I like it. Certainly if I got that working,
it would avoid all possible conflicts with any setup anyone
currently has. And it could be readily extended to a lot more
than just those two options.
>This isn't different from your proposed mod to lpr, it just
>shuffles where the work is done.
Well, it's different in one major way. Here at RPI, I have
complete and utter control over lpr. A different guy does
samba, and he's buried with other projects right now... :-)
Still, I'll have to think about this some more. I think this
is probably the most promising strategy to consider. Thanks!
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