Using Debian Sarge, samba, CUPS, and an HP G85 mutifunction with HPOJ to use the G85 USB connection, I've been able to get raw printing to work, and Point 'n' Print driver download to work, but not at the same time.
The driver download was a chore, because of HP's proprietary install program. Had to install the driver locally to get the needed files and copy them manually to the Linux box. Raw printing didn't work unless I did a local install of the driver and created a new port named //server/printer, which pretty much defeats the driver download feature. Incidentally, the documentation on doing this refers to the "Details" tab, but it's really the "Ports" tab in the Win2K printer driver Properties sheet. The docs should probably be updated for this. If I use the driver download, the output from a WordPad document with just the word "test" spits out multiple pages, each being either blank or just one line of garbage. The first page has a line which begins with @ and character like a capital C with a tail, then the printer URL in the form \\server\printer, cut off near the end by a smiley face and various other odd characters. The URL appears to repeat near the end of the line but is cut off when the printer runs out of room on the right. My thinking is that the printer URL must be an artifact of sending the data over the network, and that samba should be removing it, because CUPS wouldn't know what to do with it. Not sure why this happens with the downloaded driver but not the locally installed one. I would prefer to use the driver download feature, since it doesn't require a manual install of the driver on each workstation. Can anyone suggest how to get this to work? -- Don Stauffer, Office Manager Indiana Epilepsy and Child Neurology, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba