[Samba] printing / printcap name in samba-3.0.0 BUG
* To: samba at sambadotorg * Subject: [Samba] printing / printcap name in samba-3.0.0 BUG * From: Joerg Pulz <JoergdotPulz at frm2dottumdotde> * Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:31:12 +0100 (CET) hi,
i currently tried to setup a samba print server which uses cups as default printing system and for some special printers i want to use my own scripts.
samba-3.0.0 is linked against libcups and printing via cups and the driver download works perfect.
whe i try to specify a special printer with "printing = bsd/lprng/sysv" my own "print command" and a special "printcap" inside the service description, samba is always trying to print via cups and testparm shows the following warning: - -- Processing section "[special-printer]" Global parameter printcap name found in service section! - --
here are the minimum settings from smb.conf: - -- [global] load printers = yes printcap name = cups printing = cups
[printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes
[special-printer] comment = special printer path = /var/spool/samba-special printing = bsd printcap name = /usr/local/etc/samba/printcap.static print command = /path/to/command public = no writable = no printable = yes - --
the samba-howto-collection describes it this way,
Actually, it recommended to use "printcap = lpstat" and "printing = sysv".
so it's eihter an error in the howto document or in the smb.conf file processing.
I am responsible for that part of the HOWTO Collection, and I myself noticed last night that there is something not kosher with that part. I seem to remember that I just copied and pasted an example setup into that document's source (at the time HTML), which *definitely worked for me*. But I was using 2.2.8 and 3.0alpha24 and 3.0beta-something at the time...
I'll try to investigate next week and come up with another working solution for this. Sorry, no time before that (and no environment to test it)....
Sorry for having co-caused your problem.
Kurt
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