At 13:53 15/08/01 -0400, you wrote:

>If you are at least getting smbclient to work, you are almost there!
>
>Now the problem is how Cups' filters treat the remote winblows printer.
>
>Cups tries to run thru the Linux/Unix style printer filters which feed
>GIMP/GHOSTSCRIPT or some other ratherizer. The problem is that the
>rasterizer rarely puts out information that is compatible with the
>winblows printers...
>
>Your first step should be to set up the Winblows printer as a text mode
>printer and try printing plain text to it from Linux/Cups.
>
>Make sure that you can get plain text to print FIRST!
>
>If you can this far, you can start searching for Winblows compatible
>Linux/Cups filters in the driver database.
>
>Additional printer control init sequences may differ between CUPS and
>Winblows which is another problem...
>
>-JMS

I finally got it to work. The only strange thing is that sometimes the 
printer stops in the middle of a page and I have to start again.

But anyway thanks for the help.

Guilherme Cirne
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