hi,
that's exactly what I did but on the clients the default is overwritten,
probably because there is no forms entry for 'A4' in the local
registry....
regards
~christoph
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Jon Gerdes wrote:
> If you use Samba to send out the printer driver you can setup the defaults by
>connecting as a printer admin (or admin user). Right click on the printer and select
>document defaults (or whatever it is) and set it up for A4. Then, the clients will
>also be re-configured.
>
> Cheers
> Jon Gerdes
>
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/01/2002 10:21:28 >>>
> hi,
>
> I'm using SAMBA 2.2.0 and LPRng 3.8.3 on SOLARIS 2.7 to offer printservice
> for ~2.300 NT 4.0 clients. Everything works fine, I use the feature to
> preconfigure the NT drivers on the printserver which makes my NT clients
> think they talk to a NT server :-)
>
> The most annoying problem is that the SAMBA server doesn't know the paper
> size A4 (which is the default format in europe). Though the driver comes
> with 'A4' as default format from the server the NT clients change the
> entry to 'A4 small' or 'letter' I think because they don't find the 'A4
> forms' entry in the registry.
>
> Using the server properties card from a NT box I can add forms to the
> server but not a 'A4' called form, because it exists already and I don't
> have the right to replace or change it (I have admin rights on the NT
> machine). To me it looks like if I see a mixture in the dialogue between the forms
>on the SAMBA server and lokal
> forms that come probably with NT.
>
> Is there any way to get rid of this problem, like a different way to add a
> forms entry to the SAMBA server? Maybe I'm on a completely wrong way and
> the problem can be solved somewhere else (?)
>
>
> Another thing that happens quite often: Deleting a printjob in the
> NT queue window results from time to time in a renaming of the job and the
> message 'command didn't succeed' the job in the NT queue window in that
> case gets renamed from its original name e.g. 'my_document' to the name
> of the SAMBA tmp file e.g. 'SMBPRN.123'. Deleting this job again is then
> successful, I played around a bit but all I can say is that the lprm
> command doesn't get executed on the first try, is it a name mapping
> problem (?):
>
> print command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/lpr -r -Fl -m%m -U%U -P%p %s
> lpq command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/samba/%u/lpq -P%p
> lprm command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/lprm -U%U -P%p %j
>
> thank you for any hint and the great improvements in printing integration
> through SAMBA in the 2.2.0 release
>
> ~christoph
>
>
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