On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:41 am, Larry Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 03:46, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Larry - I'm thrashing about in the hope that my thoughts will get you > > thinking on new lines, not because I know the answer. The ESP > > Ghostscript comment suggests to me that it is receiving a ps file - do > > you think that is so? Also, I am certain that I have read somewhere about > > settings on the windows machine, but so far I haven't remembered where I > > saw it. It was something on the lines of 'if you have the choice of ECP > > and EPP' (I think that's right) it suggested the samba did not like one > > of them, so you should set it to the other. I can't remember which, but > > you could try the opposite one to the one you have now. > > > > If I can find the reference I'll post it up. Meanwhile, check out > > > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO: Sharing a Linux Printer With Windows > > > > HTH > > > > Anne > > Hi Anne. > > The thought of someone thrashing about for me is comforting somehow, but > the mental image is pure hilarity. > LOL
> Okay, seriously. To be honest, I'm not sure what is being sent. From what > I've read, ESP GS is required to print a raw file, but I don't know why. > The error log does indicate that the file is of type application/octet > stream, but then it fails. It also fails if I try to print from the Win98 > machine to a file, then manually feed that file to cups. Maybe the Windows > driver isn't doing working like cups expects, but lpd (Slackware 4-ish) and > lprng (Red Hat 7.3) both accept the Windows machine output without > complaining. My driver choices were the same - either "gimp + print" or > "ghostscript + cdj500" or "ghostscript + djet500." One guess I have is > that the drivers are not cups natives but come from other sources and so > don't function the same in cups. > I've forgotten whether you are trying to use local windows drivers or samba to your machine's drivers? The gs+dj500 would be only if it's using your local drivers, I would have thought. > But that raises another question: why is cups trying to interpret a raw > file? Shouldn't it simply cat the file to /dev/lp0? > I'm not sure how raw files are handled, perhaps someone else could comment on that? > On ECP and EPP, it's entirely possible the port is in the wrong condition. > But I tend to discount this a bit because - as cliche as it sounds - it > used to work before cups. > You mean you had samba printing set up on these machines some other time/way? > I'll check out the link when I get a chance. I've got to do some > reconfiguring after downloading and installing all the updates I could > grab. > Sorry to ask so many questions, but I'm a little confused now. BTW - I presume you did check those lines in smb.conf that specify whether you're using win drivers of samba drivers? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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