On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Michael Robinson wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:08 -0700 > From: Michael Robinson <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Samba problem... > > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:08 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote: >> The client is Windows 2000 professional and the software program is >> Family Tree Maker 2009. My dad has an HP Deskjet 9800 hooked up to his >> Fedora Core 9 computer running samba 3. He has paper that is special, >> it is wider and longer than letter paper. How does he print to large >> format paper? Under Fedora's printer administration applet, the print >> administration default has been set to custom, but that doesn't seem to >> be the trick. I believe the printer driver on the Linux side is CUPS. >> >> Another weird thing, my CentOS 5 box doesn't see the printer. >> >> Are there special samba parameters that are needed so that he can >> print to his large format paper? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Does nobody know how to use large paper on a samba based network > printer from a Windows client? I have seen no replies and it has > been 2 days. Is this too unusual for people? He wants to print > family trees out on much larger paper than what one typically > uses. If I don't figure this out, he is going to demand that > the printer be taken off of the Linux box and put on a Windows > machine. I'd prefer not to do that.
I am replying so that you know you aren't being ignored. But I simply don't have an answer for you. I can ask at work tomorrow; I know we have some linux print/share servers in our network. We print 11x17" drawings mostly. I'll try to get a copy of the samba config file. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
