We are having great problems printing from XP clients through our Samba server. We are using the Adobe PS driver, and are configured for automatic driver download/install from the server. Samba is 2.2.8a and part of a Suse OpenExchange server, printing is through CUPS. Printers are an assortment of different makes of Postscript (and compatible) lasers.

Basically, we have 'wierd' behaviour. Excel documents send as landscape which are formatted for landscape, but not rotated on the page; jobs which just don't print at all (postscript errors); Printouts where every occurance of a particular character is missing, or characters are changed.

If we re-configure the clients to talk directly to the printers via an IP port, they work fine with the same drivers and PPDs.

I've configured CUPS to support raw printing (as per 8.5.14 in the Samba Howto).

Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong ?

Simon


smb.conf extracts :

[global]
        printcap name = CUPS
        printing = cups


[print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin,@root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = Yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
create mask = 0600
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
print command = grep -v '^[0-9]* *VM\?' <%s >%s-2 ; rm %s ; lpr -P%p -o raw %s-2
browseable = No



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