Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-08 Thread Hamish
Mitch (WebCob) wrote: The problem of the connectivity error seems to have been persistant for the duration of the windows login - so whatever I had screwed up I think I must have fixed, but I still have concerns... (and oodles of ideas - I could use this same process to create a fax gateway

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
The problem of the connectivity error seems to have been persistant for the duration of the windows login - so whatever I had screwed up I think I must have fixed, but I still have concerns... (and oodles of ideas - I could use this same process to create a fax gateway too...) I also wanted

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-08 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
We also use HylaFAX, but this has little to do with Samba. You require a client for Windows in order to give users a decent experience, I recommend HylaFSP (which is a commercial product, but reasonably priced). There are several Win32 clients, most of which don't really stand up to

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread awilliam
Is anyone has set a samba mail pdf printer with ADS athentification ? How can I setup samba for that ? Same as setting up samba for anything. The mail pdf printer is just a printer as far as Samba is concerned, queing the job just happens to invoke a script that does the -pdf-mail thing

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
-Original Message- Is anyone has set a samba mail pdf printer with ADS athentification ? How can I setup samba for that ? Same as setting up samba for anything. The mail pdf printer is just a printer as far as Samba is concerned, queing the job just happens to invoke a script that

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Hamish
Mitch (WebCob) wrote: -Original Message- Is anyone has set a samba mail pdf printer with ADS athentification ? How can I setup samba for that ? Same as setting up samba for anything. The mail pdf printer is just a printer as far as Samba is concerned, queing the job

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
[Mitch says:] Sorry for butting in - and sorry if this is a dumb question - but are you guys saying there is an existing PDF printer / spooler combo that provides a PDF output option under Samba? Is this a 3rd party app or where do I get started looking at this? Yes, it is included with just

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
This is what I use, it is a simple script called from smb.conf. I have saved the script in /usr/bin and made it executable. And here is what we use: - #!/bin/sh # Simple script to convert a specified postscript file into a PDF # document # and place it in a location that

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Harald Milz
Hamish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I added this to my smb.conf This won't work with printing = cups if Samba is linked against libcups... [pdfprinter] printing = lprng This looks okay. print command = /usr/bin/smbpdfmaker %s %U %m %I -- You are the only person to

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
[Mitch says:] Awesome guys - thanks! [Mitch says:] I'll probably go with the route of just saving the files - will tie email notification into our preferences DB (have to do that anyways to lookup their actual email domain which is not the same as their NT domain...) Would be neat if winpopup-like

Re: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Then I added this to my smb.conf This won't work with printing = cups if Samba is linked against libcups... [pdfprinter] printing = lprng This looks okay. print command = /usr/bin/smbpdfmaker %s %U %m %I Our share definition looks like - [pdfconv] path = /tmp

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
[Mitch says:] ok... after looking at Adam's and Hamish's work, and making it fit our setup (file system, folders, etc.) I have it working - kinda ;-) The printer is detectable, and when prompted, I selected an HP2500C PS driver and boom - when I print, I get a PDF file in the expected place...

RE: [Samba] Pdf printer by mail with samba 3.0.9-1

2004-12-07 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
The problem of the connectivity error seems to have been persistant for the duration of the windows login - so whatever I had screwed up I think I must have fixed, but I still have concerns... (and oodles of ideas - I could use this same process to create a fax gateway too...) [Mitch says:] One