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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:20 -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote: > Just set up a new SuSE 10 Pro Box to perform as a file and print > server. We noticed what we think is a defect in the YaST-created > configs, and so I am asking here for advice as to whether I should > open a bug for this on opensuse.org, please. I have no idea if this is > set up the same way in 10.1, which we have not tested. After we set up > Samba, cups and configured a printer attached to the box, we attempted > to add this printer as a network printer to a WinXP Pro box. Without > getting in to a religious war about raw vs. other forms of printing, > our preferred printer setup method for most printers in small networks > is to copy the SuSE ppd file to a network share, and then use the free > Adobe Postscript printer driver installer and the ppd file to create > network printers on each Windows workstation. OK, the printer > installed fine on the Windows workstation but when we went to print, > we got raw text spewing out of the printer. We noticed that > in /etc/smb.conf in the global section there is a line "cups optons = > raw". We commented out that line, restarted Samba and all was well. > But, we also noticed that the lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs > and /etc/cups/mime.types necessary for cups to support raw printing > were commented out. In other words, the default SuSE Samba/cups > printing setup is broken as Samba is configured for raw printing but > cups is not. Both sides need to be configured to support the same type > of printing for Samba printing to work without having to manually edit > one or more files. This is more of a "fit 'n finish" issue and not a > broken code problem, but is this the sort of thing that in your > experience deserves a bug report to be filed? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
