Recently we bought a Minolta 251f printer/copier and I'm trying to share it using SAMBA-2.2.1a and CUPS-1.1.12. The printer has a network module and it's plugged into the network.
I'll start with the question: "Has anyone able to get similar Minolta printer to work with SAMBA?" Here is what happened when I tried. The original drivers that came with the printer didn't work. If I print from Windows'98 SAMBA creates an empty spool file and send it to CUPS. If I print from W'NT the print job disappeared and when I rebooted the machine I got a message saying the I have a print job in the queue. There are no errors in the SAMBA or CUPS log files. On the other hand the same drivers work when I use Win'NT as a print server instead of SAMBA. Minolta Support recommended to use some old Minolta PCL driver for W'98 and HP LaserJet 4 PCL driver for Win'NT and everything work fine but in this scenario I can't setup an automatic driver download. Also we are losing a lot of printer features using HP driver on Minolta printer. I don't think that I'm the only one who has a Minolta printer and tried to share it using SAMBA so please if you are able to do that drop me a line. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
