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Joel,
You are right to feel that I don't understand any of this. I think your
assumptions are probably on target. I especially like your idea that
samba is to blame for this, as that would seem to explain (to me) why
this is a client only issue. I tried adding :sh: to printcap and lpd
complained and insisted on ff_separator. I tried printing anyway, and
the same problem exists.
Here is the smb.conf file. I don't see what to do here, but perhaps you
or someone else will! Thanks!
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from localhost (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2002/05/01 04:43:18
# Global parameters
[global]
interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127.0.0.1/24
bind interfaces only = Yes
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
time server = Yes
socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
character set = ISO8859-15
os level = 2
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
guest account = smbuser
hosts allow = [snipped]
printing = lprng
hide dot files = No
veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
create mask = 0600
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
[printer1]
path = /var/tmp
read only = No
create mask = 0600
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
printer name = printer1
oplocks = No
Joel Hammer wrote:
| Ok. I get the feeling that you don't really understand print queues and
| filters. Yes?
|
| I do not see a raw print queue in the two queues you have here
| in your printcap. I have to assume that all your clients are sending you
| postscript files and your filter is sending them to your printer
unchanged.
| I assume your printer is a postscript printer. That is, you could just
cat a
| postscript file to it (cat file > /dev/lp0) and it would print it
properly.
| Notice the assumes in this sentence.
|
| I do not know anything about your printer filter,
/usr/lib/lpdfilter/bin/if.
| You might want to look at it or send it to me via this list if it is not a
| binary file. It may contain a clue.
|
| As we recall, samba prints for you by:
|
| 1. Transferring the print file from the client to a samba spool directory.
|
| 2. Invoking lpr, with options, to print the file.
| Therefore, if samba is causing this problem, there should be a difference
| in:
|
| 1. How the file was transferred to the samba server. The file in the
| samba spool directory (which will be a postscript file, I assume) and
| a postscript file generated from the samba server itself when you print
| to a file.
|
| 2. How samba prints the file. The lpr command that samba uses is different
| from the lpr command you use to print from the server directly.
|
| So, the things I would try would include the following:
|
| 1. Look at the lpr command in your samba print share. Try using that
| command, with options that make sense, to print from the samba server
| command line and see if you get the extra page. For your print file,
| use a postscript file you generated on the samba server with a print to
| file option from some application.
|
| 2. Remove the rm option in your lpr command in the smb.conf file. Find
| the print file sent from a client in the samba spool directory, and lpr
| that file from the command line on the samba server.
|
| 3. Try adding :sh: to your printcap definitions.
|
| 4. Post your printer share from smb.conf.
|
| Joel
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